Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:15:24 -0400
From: wtc at ist.gov
Subject: Final Reports on WTC Towers Released

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released the final reports from its building and fire safety investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center towers following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  The reports, which were released at a hearing held by the House Science Committee on the NIST investigation, feature 30 recommendations to improve the way people design, construct, maintain, and use buildings to increase building, occupant, and emergency responder safety.

The reports on the towers consist of 43 individual documents and some 10,000 pages, with one summary report (about 250 pages) that contains the principal findings and recommendations.  The reports as well as a news release will be available on the NIST WTC Web site (http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1CollapseofTowers.pdf) after 11 a.m. on October 26, 2005.  Next spring, NIST plans to release an additional five reports on the investigation of WTC 7 (a 47-story building that fell after the WTC towers) as drafts for public comment.

Based on nearly 500 comments from 80 different entities (22 organizations and 58 individuals) that were received during the six-week public review period following the release of the draft WTC reports on June 23, 2005, the reports, including some of the recommendations, were amended and clarified.  The complete set of public comments will be posted on the NIST WTC Web site in the near future.

A. writes:

I got this report from the Washington Post the other day before they changed the Mehlis report, to remove names. This one has all the editing in it the media have been talking about.

http://cryptome.org/mehlis-report.zip (Zipped Word .DOC)

Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2005:

For some activists, the very idea of Digital Rights Management is anathema. They believe that once a consumer legally buys a song or a video clip, the companies that sold them have no right to limit how the consumer uses them, any more than a car company should be able to limit what you can do with a car you've bought.

But DRM is seen as a lifesaver by the music, television and movie industries. The companies believe they need DRM technology to block the possibility that a song or video can be copied in large quantities and distributed over the Internet, thus robbing them of legitimate sales.

In my view, both sides have a point, but the real issue isn't DRM itself -- it's the manner in which DRM is used by copyright holders. Companies have a right to protect their property, and DRM is one means to do so. But treating all consumers as potential criminals by using DRM to overly limit their activities is just plain wrong.

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A young European software expert reviled by Hollywood has joined forces with a controversial California software entrepreneur whose new company aims to challenge Apple Computer Inc. in online music.

Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian who infuriated movie makers by creating a program that allowed consumers to copy DVDs onto their computers, began work this week at a San Diego start-up Internet company called MP3tunes.

The private company is headed by Michael Robertson, who founded mp3.com, a Web site that was sued by the music industry for copyright violations and was forced to pay millions of dollars in damages and licensing fees. Mr. Robertson sold mp3.com to Vivendi Universal SA for $372 million in 2001; it later was sold to CNET Networks Inc.

Mr. Robertson says he hired Mr. Johansen, who never completed high school, because "I admire his technology skills" and his "strength to stand up" to the Motion Picture Association of America. Through its international affiliate, the MPAA persuaded Norwegian authorities to prosecute Mr. Johansen over his free DVD program, which he had posted on the Internet in 1999 when he was 15 years old. The trade group, which represents film studios, argued that the program had sparked widespread illegal downloading and swapping of movies.

Mr. Johansen, who was dubbed "DVD Jon" by the Norwegian press, was tried twice in Oslo -- in 2002 and 2003 -- and acquitted both times, with the judges failing to find proof that the program had been used for illegal purposes. "Here you have a teenager standing up to that kind of pressure," says Mr. Robertson. "That shows pretty amazing intestinal fortitude."

Mr. Robertson won't say exactly what Mr. Johansen will do at MP3tunes, other than that he will work as an audio engineer on a digital music project (code named Oboe) that will start up later this year. Mr. Johansen, who was the subject of a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal this past Saturday, also declines to comment on his new job.

-- http://cryptome.org/drm-attack2.htm

We at www.evilscientists.de developed a small tool which can be used to decode passwords from the profile files of the Cisco VPN Client. This is due to the fact that the Cisco Client uses weak encryption to store these passwords. I translated the original article on our website into an English version (http://evilscientists.de/blog/?page_id=343).

United States Patent Application 20040179513           September 16, 2004

Assignee Name and Address: Government of the United States of America Federal Bureau of Investigation

Controllable telecommunications switch reporting compatible with voice grade lines

Data generated at a telecommunications network switching node is selectively delivered to one or more data receiving device (e.g., data "collection box") connected to the network, and command and control signaling is transmitted from the data receiving device to the switching node. This bi-directional communication is carried out in a manner compatible with voice grade lines. In an exemplary application, call identifying information, referred to in the TIA/EIA Standard as CDC (Call Data Channel) Messages, is delivered from an Intercept Access Point (IAP) switch that provides telephone service to a subject of an authorized surveillance order, to a law enforcement data collection box, utilizing Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) signals. Control signals are sent from the data collection box to the IAP switch utilizing Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signaling. The state of the art is advanced, and a contribution is made to law enforcement and other fields, as the invention allows replacement of costly and lengthily provisioned data delivery circuits, such as ISDN lines or private digital data circuits, with widely available and less expensive voice-band data delivery equipment.

-- http://cryptome.org/fbi-tap-box.htm

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/10/05/20051005LNJplane.html

Lack of customs agent diverts largest plane to another site

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

The Russian Antonov An-225 was unable to land at the East Texas Regional Airport as planned Tuesday. The plane was carrying a huge General Electric generator headed to Valero Energy Corp.'s Port Arthur refinery, which has been without power since Hurricane Rita hit. Airport Manager Virginia Hall said the plane, the largest in the world, was diverted to Lake Charles, La., because the Gregg County airport does not have a customs agent on site.

Antonov An-225 at Northrop Grumman's airfield, Lake Charles, LA, October 7, 2005 Source: http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/rita/27916329.jpg (1.4MB) Photo of the aircraft landing in Houston, TX on October 5, 2005: http://www.airliners.net/photos/photos/9/0/2/940209.jpg Photographer's caption: UR-82060 (cn 13102) ADB995F arriving from Lake Charles, LA carrying a power plant from Greece for the hurricane relief effort. Seen here on very short final for 8L. [Nikon D70]

October 13, 2005

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission 
(Commission) adopts a rule establishing that providers of facilities-
based broadband Internet access services and providers of 
interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services--meaning 
VoIP service that allows a user generally to receive calls originating 
from and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network 
(PSTN)--must comply with the Communications Assistance for Law 
Enforcement Act (CALEA). This new rule will enhance public safety and 
ensure that the surveillance needs of law enforcement agencies continue 
to be met as Internet-based communications technologies proliferate.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) initiates 
this rulemaking to explore whether the Communications Assistance for 
Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) should apply to providers of voice over 
Internet Protocol (VoIP) services that are not interconnected, meaning 
VoIP services that do not allow users generally to receive calls 
originating from and to terminate calls to the public switched 
telephone network (PSTN). This rulemaking will also explore the 
appropriateness of requiring something less than full CALEA compliance 
for certain classes or categories of providers of facilities-based 
broadband Internet access services. This rulemaking will enhance public 
safety and ensure that the surveillance needs of law enforcement 
agencies continue to be met as Internet-based communications 
technologies proliferate.

-- http://cryptome.org/fcc101305.txt

Reexamining the Distinction Between Open Information and Secrets

Stephen C. Mercado

We need to rethink the distinction between open sources and secrets. Too many policymakers and intelligence officers mistake secrecy for intelligence and assume that information covertly acquired is superior to that obtained openly. Yet, the distinction between overt and covert sources is less clear than such thinking suggests. Open sources often equal or surpass classified information in monitoring and analyzing such pressing problems as terrorism, proliferation, and counterintelligence. Slighting open source intelligence (OSINT) for secrets, obtained at far greater expense when available at all, is no way to run an intelligence community. Also, we must put to rest the notion that the private sector is the preferred OSINT agent. In the end, I would contend, the Intelligence Community (IC) needs to assign greater resources to open sources.

-- http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/Vol49no2/reexamining_the_distinction_3.htm

http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/press_release/2005/pr10132005.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

13 October 2005

DNI AND D/CIA ANNOUNCE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL CLANDESTINE SERVICE

The Director of National Intelligence, John D. Negroponte, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter J. Goss, today announced the creation of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) at CIA.

The initiative will strengthen the direction and leadership of human intelligence throughout the Intelligence Community (IC). The plan reflects the thinking of some of the most seasoned veterans in human intelligence collection, men and women with decades of experience in the field.

In announcing this new approach, Director Goss said, "The decision to create the NCS at CIA underscores CIA’s proud position as the center of gravity for HUMINT in our Intelligence Community. No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence." Goss added, "The announcement represents a grant of trust and an expression of confidence in CIA from the President, the DNI, and our partners throughout government."

The National Clandestine Service at CIA will incorporate the current Directorate of Operations and will be led by the Director of the National Clandestine Service (D/NCS) to whom the D/CIA will delegate his day-to-day National HUMINT Manager responsibilities. The D/NCS will coordinate, de-conflict, and assess HUMINT operations throughout the IC and will report directly to the D/CIA. The D/NCS will also work with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to implement the DNI's statutory authorities.

The D/NCS will be assisted by two deputies -- one will lead the daily activities of the CIA's Clandestine Service while the other will focus on human intelligence activities across the IC.

"These changes hold the potential to make our HUMINT operations better than they were before—from training and tradecraft to technology and counterintelligence," Goss said. "They hold the potential to make our Intelligence Community even more of a Community. It is up to us to make that potential real, and in the process to make the United States safer and stronger. I have every confidence that we will meet that goal."

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

13 October 2005

FACT SHEET

CREATION OF THE NATIONAL HUMINT MANAGER

Press Release

Improving HUMINT Throughout the Intelligence Community

* In response to the recommendations made by the "WMD Commission," the CIA working closely with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) developed an implementation plan for establishing the National Clandestine Service (NCS). This plan was approved by President George W. Bush.

* The DCIA will become the National HUMINT manager. He will delegate his day-to-day responsibilities as the National HUMINT manager to the Director of the NCS. · The creation of the NCS will further enhance of the Intelligence Community's (IC) clandestine HUMINT (Human Intelligence) capabilities and create a truly national clandestine HUMINT capability. It will be successful due to the full participation of all relevant IC members.

* Director Goss appointed the current DDO--a seasoned veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO)-- to be the first Director of the National Clandestine Service (D/NCS). The individual is and will remain an undercover officer.

* The NCS will serve as the national authority for coordination, deconfliction, and evaluation of clandestine HUMINT operations across the Intelligence Community, both abroad and inside the United States, consistent with existing laws, executive orders, and interagency agreements.

* While the ODNI will establish policy related to clandestine HUMINT, the NCS will execute and implement that policy across the IC.

Continuing to Strengthen CIA Capabilities Through Transformation

* The NCS will be led by the D/NCS with a Deputy Director of the NCS (DD/NCS/CIA), a Deputy Director of NCS for Community HUMINT (DD/NCS/CH), and an Associate Deputy Director of the NCS for Technology (ADD/NCS/T).

* The DD/NCS/CIA is responsible for, under the direction of the D/NCS, managing CIA's clandestine service.

* The DD/NCS/CH is responsible for, under the direction of the D/NCS, facilitation, coordination and deconfliction of clandestine HUMINT across the Community. In coordination with the ODNI, the DD/NCS/CH will be empowered to implement community-wide authorities and, in conjunction with CIA's NCS and IC partners, will draft standards, doctrine, and guidelines for training, tradecraft, and general conduct of clandestine HUMINT operations.

* The ADD/NCS/T is responsible for, under the direction of the D/NCS, managing use of advanced technologies related to clandestine HUMINT.

A1 writes: SIS (MI6) has a website:

http://www.mi6.gov.uk/output/Page79.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4336038.stm

...or so they claim.

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A2 writes: MI6: http://www.mi6.gov.uk/

Coverage: 'MI6 launches recruitment website' (Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5307840-103690,00.html

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A3 writes:

www.mi6.gov.uk

www.sis.gov.uk

[Federal Register: October 11, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 195)]
[Notices]               
[Page 59114]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5203]

In the Matter of the Designation of the Moroccan Islamic 
Combatant Group, aka Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain (GICM), as a 
Foreign Terrorist Organization Pursuant to Section 219 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act

    Based upon a review of the Administrative Record assembled in this 
matter, and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary 
of the Treasury, the Secretary of State has concluded that there is a 
sufficient factual basis to find that the relevant circumstances 
described in section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as 
amended (8 U.S.C. 1189, hereinafter ``INA''), exist with respect to the 
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, aka Groupe Islamique Combattant 
Marocain (GICM).
    Therefore, effective upon date of publication in the Federal 
Register, the Secretary of State hereby designates that organization as 
a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219(a) of the INA.

    Dated: October 3, 2005.
Henry A. Crumpton,
Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 05-20341 Filed 10-7-05; 5:00 pm]

BILLING CODE 4710-10-P

The Will to Code: Nietzsche and the Democratic Impulse

David M. Berry & Lee Evans
Department of Media and Film/Dept of International Relations, University of Sussex., Falmer, Brighton. BN1 9RH

Abstract

This paper examines the moral claims of free software through the lens of a (re)reading of their theory and practices together with aspects of Nietzsche's works. It seeks to make a preliminary sketch of how such an analysis might draw attention to oft-neglected aspects of the free software and open source movements. Does an aristocratic moment within the free software (and more generally the free culture) movements point toward a necessary revitalisation of the res publica and should we view this movement as central to the democratic project rather than anathema to it.

-- http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/berry_will_to_code.html

A. writes:

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/08/Tampabay/SOCom_to_open_site_in.shtml

TAMPA - The Pentagon is establishing a secret facility in St. Petersburg to help Special Operations Command better process intelligence. Because the project is classified, details remain sketchy. But Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, confirmed the basic outline late Friday.

He said Blackbird Technologies of Virginia was awarded the $27-million contract to operate a Joint Intelligence Operations Center on behalf of SOCom, which is based at MacDill Air Force Base.

SOCom oversees the nation's secret commandoes and is coordinating the Defense Department's global war on terror.

"They're continually looking for a more effective way to deal with their intelligence issues," said Young, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

The center - to operate out of a building at 9th Street N and Gandy Boulevard - is intended to help National Intelligence Director John Negroponte "remodel" military intelligence at SOCom.

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Google sat image (9th Street North is also named Dr Martin Luther King St North):

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=st+petersburg,+fl&ll=27.862469,-82.647486&spn=0.005938,0.009061&t=k&hl=en

A. writes:

Man whose Web site shows pictures of war dead is arrested

http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm6544_20051008.htm

His site:

http://NowThatsFuckedUp.com

From: "Agentura.Ru" <staff[at]agentura.ru>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:43:23 +0400
Agentura.Ru Studies and Research Centre /ASRC/ has just published English version of report about what has happened with Russian system of terrorism prevention one year after Beslan. Here is a link of full text of this report

http://studies.agentura.ru/english/listing/terrorismprevention/ 

Best Regards,
Andrei Soldatov
www.agentura.ru

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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: CIA Web Site Update <updates[at]ucia.gov>
Subject: CIA Web Site Update

We removed reference to Director of Central Intelligence, which no longer exists.

October 5 - Posted CIA Director Porter J. Goss statement on CIA Office of the Inspector General Report, "CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks".

http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/press_release/2005/pr10052005.html

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:25:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sara Caswell <sara[at]nist.gov>
Subject: NIST Nanosecurity Workshop

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is hosting a workshop on Nanosecurity on February 22 and 23, 2006.  The purpose of the workshop is to:  (1) identify new security applications enabled with the availability of nanotechnology components and (2) characterize special security threats and requirements at the nanoscale.

A call for participation and more details about the workshop are available at:

http://www.nist.gov/nano-sec

A writes:

IRC logs of people transcribing police scanners from the New Orleans area from Sept 1st 2005 thru Sept 9th 2005 are available at:

http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/

Latest US Military Dead in Iraq of 2,119 October 22, 2005. Three Marines died Oct. 20 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces near Nasser Wa Salaam, Iraq: Staff Sergeant Richard T. Pummill, 27, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Lance Cpl. Andrew D. Russoli, 21, of Greensboro, N.C. Lance Cpl. Steven W. Szwydek, 20, of Warfordsburg, Pa. October 21, 2005. Soldier Spc. Kendall K. Frederick, 21, of Randallstown, Md., died near Tikrit, Iraq, on Oct. 19, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during convoy operations. Three Soldiers died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 19, when their HMMWV was struck by enemy indirect fire during patrol operations: Sgt. Arthur A. Mora Jr., 23, of Pico Rivera, Calif. Spc. Russell H. Nahvi, 24, of Arlington, Texas. Spc. Jose E. Rosario, 20, of St. Croix, Virgin Islands. October 20, 2005. Soldier Staff Sgt. Tommy I. Folks Jr., 31, of Amarillo, Texas, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 19, of injuries sustained on Oct. 18, in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when multiple improvised explosive devices detonated near his HMMWV during convoy operations. Marine Lance Cpl. Norman W. Anderson III, 21, of Parkton, Md., died Oct. 19 from a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Karabilah, Iraq. Soldier Spc. Daniel D. Bartels, 22, of Huron, S.D., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 19, of a non-combat related cause identified there on Oct. 18. October 19, 2005. Sailor Petty Officer 3rd Class Fabricio Moreno, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was killed Oct. 14 in a single-vehicle accident in Manda Bay, Kenya. Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Scott R. Bubb, 19, of Grottoes, Va., died Oct. 17 from small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Rutbah, Iraq. Soldier Spc. Lucas A. Frantz, 22, of Tonganoxie, Kan., died in Mosul, Iraq, on Oct. 18, when he was hit by enemy fire while performing a combat mission. Soldier Chief Warrant Officer Paul J. Pillen, 28, of Keystone, S.D., died in Salwa, Kuwait, on Oct. 17, of a non-combat related cause. October 18, 2005. Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher M. Poston, 20, of Glendale, Ariz., died Oct. 17 from a non-hostile vehicle accident in Hit, Iraq. Marine Lance Cpl. Chad R. Hildebrandt, 22, of Springer, N.M., died Oct. 17 from small-arms fire while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Rutbah, Iraq. October 17, 2005. Marine Sgt. Mark P. Adams, 24, of Morrisville, N.C., died Oct. 15 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Saqlawiyah, Iraq. Soldier Pfc. Joseph Cruz, 22, of Whittier, Calif., died in Bagram, Afghanistan, on Oct. 16, of non-combat related injuries sustained in an accident at Organ-E, Afghanistan, on Oct. 15. October 16, 2005. Three soldiers died in Al Taji, Iraq, on Oct. 14, when they were conducting convoy operations and an 18-wheel tractor trailer accidentally struck the rear of their HMWWV, starting a fire and causing ammunition to detonate: Sgt. Brian R. Conner, 36, of Baltimore, Md. Spc. Samuel M. Boswell, 20, of Elkridge, Md. Spc. Bernard L. Ceo, 23, of Baltimore, Md. October 15, 2005. Soldier Spc. Scott J. Mullen, 22, of Tucson, Ariz., died in Makati City, The Republic of the Philippines, on Oct. 14, of injuries sustained there from a non-combat related accident on Oct. 13. October 14, 2005. Marine Master Sgt. Kenneth E. Hunt Jr., 40, of Tucson, Ariz., died Oct. 12 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Hunt died from wounds received July 24 when the vehicle he was riding in struck an anti-tank mine while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Taqaddum, Iraq. Two soldiers died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 12, when their military vehicle collided with a civilian vehicle and overturned: Sgt. Donald D. Furman, 30, of Burton, S.C. Sgt. Lorenzo Ponce Ruiz, 26, of El Paso, Texas. Soldier Spc. Robert W. Tucker, 20, of Hilham, Tenn., died in Ad Dujayl, Iraq, on Oct. 13, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. October 13, 2005. Soldier Spc. James T. Grijalva, 26, of Burbank, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 12, of a non-combat related injury. October 12, 2005. Soldier Spc. Jeremy M. Hodge, 20, of Ridgeway, Ohio, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 10, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Soldier Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Kimmell, 30, of Paxton, Ind., died in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, on Oct. 11, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Marine Lance Cpl. Sergio H. Escobar, 18, of Pasadena, Calif., died Oct. 9 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. Two soldiers died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Oct. 10, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations: Sgt. 1st Class Brandon K. Sneed, 33, of Norman, Okla. Sgt. Leon M. Johnson, 28, of Jacksonville, Fla. Soldier Staff Sgt. Troy S. Ezernack, 39, of Lancaster, Pa., died in Qalat, Afghanistan, on Oct. 9, of injuries sustained earlier that day when his combat patrol was attacked by enemy forces using a grenade. October 11, 2005. Soldier Staff Sgt. Gary R. Harper Jr., 29, of Virden, Ill., died in Baghdad, Iraq on Oct. 9, when his reconnaissance mission was attacked by enemy forces. Soldier Lt. Col. Leon G. James II, 46, of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, of injuries sustained in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sep. 26, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Soldier Staff Sgt. Jerry L. Bonifacio Jr., 28, of Vacaville, Calif., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 10, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his checkpoint. October 10, 2005. Soldier Pfc. Benny S. Franklin, 19, of Hammond, La., died in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Oct. 7, of injuries sustained earlier that day in Helmand, Afghanistan, when he stepped on a landmine during patrol operations. Soldier Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Roark, 29, of Houston, Texas, died in Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 2, of a non-combat related injury. Two soldiers died of injuries sustained in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, on Oct. 7, when their dismounted patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire: Sgt. Eric A. Fifer, 22, of Knoxville, Tenn. Fifer died in Al Asad, Iraq. Pfc. Nicholas J. Greer, 21, of Monroe, Mich. Greer died in Haqlaniyah, Iraq.
Calendar of the US Military Dead During Iraq War
Year 1
March 2003	59	April 2003	92	May 2003	31	June 2003	34	July 2003	42	August 2003	37
September 2003	33	October 2003	47	November 2003	84	December 2003	49	January 2004	43	February 2004	31
Total Dead Year 1 -- 582
Year 2
March 2004	42	April 2004	129	May 2004	80	June 2004	52	July 2004	60	August 2004	67
September 2004	79	October 2004	62	November 2004	140	December 2004	79	January 2005	101	February 2005	65
Total Dead Year 2 -- 958        Total 2 Years -- 1,540
Year 3
March 2005	45	April 2005	62	May 2005	88	June 2005	89	July 2005	65	August 2005	108
September 2005	62	October 2005	60	November 2005		December 2005		January 2006		February 2006
Total Dead Year 3 -- 579

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