Free the Captives: Witness Against Illegal Detention and Torture

There was no news on Thursday Jan. 26 of the fate of Tom Fox and the other CPT peaceworkers held captive in Iraq. This date marks two months of their captivity. there has been no information about their condition or prospects for release since December 8, 2005.

from Aljazeera:US frees five Iraqi women

The US military in Iraq has freed five women prisoners, but American and Iraqi officials have stressed their release was pre-planned and not linked to the case of kidnapped US reporter Jill Carroll.

The kidnappers of Carroll, who was abducted in Baghdad on 7 January, had threatened to kill her by last Friday unless all women prisoners were released. There has been no word on her fate.

The five, among at least eight women held by US forces in Iraq, were freed along with 414 other detainees on Thursday, a US military spokesman said.

from Reuters:A U.S. soldier died after his vehicle was hit by a rocket during combat operations in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, on Wednesday the U.S. military said in a statement on Thursday.

Earlier the U.S. military said that a roadside bomb killed another U.S soldier south of Baghdad.

The following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, in line with the most recent information from the U.S. military:

U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 2,239 Britain 98 Other nations 94

IRAQIS:

MILITARY Between 4,895 and 6,370#

CIVILIANS Between 28,198 and 31,800*
[Other plausible estimates of civilian casualties exceed 100,000]