Garvey was patrolling in his vehicle when it was ambushed and struck by rocket propelled grenades. Garvey was assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 1-187 Infantry Battalion, Fort Campbell, Kentucky…

(Department of Defense Press Release, July 21, 2003)

Since May when Bush declared that the so-called "major combat" in Iraq was over, U.S. soliders have been killed at a rate of at least one a day; many more U.S. GIs have been injured during the attacks. 

The majority of the Iraqis I met, whatever their social, political, religious backgrounds or ages, told me that they don't like the U.S. troops. Although many people are happy that Saddam is gone, there are many Iraqis who still support Saddam. The majority of both opinion groups told me that they want the U.S. troops to leave. Many even say they will take up arms to rise up against the U.S. occupiers if they continue to stay in Iraq.

There's been numerous human rights violations committed by the U.S. military, according to a recent human rights report from Amnesty International.

In the streets of Baghdad, there've been many allegations against U.S. soldiers, who have been accused of stealing money and even participating in the looting Iraq's national treasures.

In many separate interviews, Iraqis told me that U.S. troops had wrongfully killed members of their family, looted their houses, stolen their money, and arrested many people they know who have now disappeared and not been heard from since. The Iraqi Body Count project has documented over 7000 civilian deaths, plus up to 2,300 Iraqi soldiers killed during the U.S. invasion in March and early April. Also, according to International Committee of the Red Cross, American military currently has thousands of Iraqis under arrest and locked down at Baghdad airport. Some of them are high-profile former Ba'ath party officials such as Tariq Aziz. But most of them are ordinarily Iraqi citizens arrested during the house raids by U.S. troops and sent to the detention. They are without formal charges and have been deprived of their rights to consult with lawyers and to contact their families.