surge update - Four U.S. Soldiers Die in Suicide Bombing in Mosul

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BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- Four American soldiers and an interpreter were killed Monday in a suicide bombing in the restive city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Iraq since May.

The military said three service members were killed shortly after a person in a vehicle set off explosives. The fourth soldier and the interpreter working with the unit died later from wounds suffered in the blast, according to the military.

An Iraqi official in Nineveh Province said a person driving a KIA pickup truck loaded with explosives rammed into a U.S. armored vehicle at approximately 11 a.m. in the Jadid district in western Mosul.

The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the attack also wounded two Iraqi policemen and a civilian.

Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, remains among the country's most dangerous. Although attacks in Nineveh province have decreased substantially, al-Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups remain active in Mosul and some outlying areas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/09/AR2009020901339_pf.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. This never stops.

We need to stop kidding ourselves & give them back their country.

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2. it will never stop as long as they are in harm's way