Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 03:09 AM MDT
Contributed by: River97
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 Deputy Sergeant Donald Alberto Ramirez, 35, was killed in action at about 6:30 p.m. local time, July 27, 2006, as a result of the detonation of an improvised explosive device while providing convoy security for a Coalition supply run near Diwaniyah.
Donald was a medic stationed with the Cuscatlan Battalion in Iraq. Before deploying he was with the Military Health Command. Pedro Cortez was also wounded in the blast, suffering light injuries to his left arm and leg. Both soldiers were in a marked El Salvador Military ambulance, which appears to have been specifically targeted.
Donald is the fourth member of the Salvadoran armed forces to be killed in Iraq since El Salvador deployed troops there in 2003, and the second in nine days. El Salvador has about 380 soldiers in Iraq.
The soldiers are stationed at Camp Delta, in Al Kut. The Salvadoran soldiers were protecting a convoy of KBR, the contractor ordered to give logistical support and food to the Coalition troops. Both were transported back to the base for medical treatment.
According to the minister of the Defense of El Salvador, Otto Romero, the person in charge of the ambush was "a center of subversive terrorists", that looked to "to cause fear and to distort the political atmosphere".
The zone of the ambush is relatively stable, although it is a conflicting place and they had not received problems before. They had only had incident in Bagdad and to the north of that city.
"They are irregular conflicts that do not have a defined front", the minister declared.
The Salvadorans of the Cuscatlan Battalion were not the only military attacked yesterday. In the region of Jarnabat, next to Baqubah, five Georgian soldiers with the Multinational Coalition were wounded in an attack against a control post.
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