Body count in Fallujah

News for December 2, 2005 went something like this:

The U.S. command has released few details about the Thursday bombing that killed 10 members of the Marines’ Regimental Combat Team 8. A witness said it occurred at a mill in the village of Amiriyat al Fallujah, just outside the city. “More than 20 troops entered there and a huge explosion happened,” said the witness, Mohsen Mohammed. “Afterward, the helicopters and tanks arrived in the area.”. The blast was the deadliest for U.S. forces in Iraq since 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter were killed Aug. 3 by a roadside bomb that ripped through their lightly armored personnel carrier near Haditha, causing it to flip into the air and explode. The troops killed in Fallujah were from Regimental Combat Team 8 of the 2nd Marine Division based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The Marine statement said that seven of those wounded had returned to duty and that their unit was still conducting counterinsurgency operations in and around Fallujah.

Meanwhile: President Bush hailed new employment figures on Friday showing that the hurricanestunted U.S. jobs market has rebounded. “This economy is in good shape,” he declared. Bush, faced with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, went to the White House Rose Garden to welcome a Labor Department report showing nonfarm payrolls had grown by 215,000 last month, the strongest increase since July. “Our economy continues to gain strength and momentum,” he said.

And A federal advisory panel determined that the first skin patch to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children is both effective and safe, bringing the patch a step closer to regulatory approval. However, the panel of independent experts voted to recommend to the Food and Drug Administration that the patch’s label encourage its use as an alternative treatment for children with ADHD in effect, saying doctors should prescribe it only if taking pills is too difficult for a child. The unanimous vote by the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, saying the patch was acceptably safe, came after a formerly critical FDA reviewer reversed his opinion about the drug.

And that’s a little of what happened, this December 2, 2005 as reported on The CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition