IRAQ: UNITED STATES TROOPS PATROL SCENE OF ROADSIDE BOMB BLAST IN MOSUL THAT KILLS ONE US SOLDIER AND WOUNDS TWO OTHERS

Record ID: 338180

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES TROOPS PATROL SCENE OF ROADSIDE BOMB BLAST IN MOSUL THAT KILLS ONE US SOLDIER AND WOUNDS TWO OTHERS
  • Date: 7th December 2003
  • Summary: (W4) MOSUL, IRAQ (DECEMBER 7, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. LV: OF U.S. TROOPS BY SIDE OF ROAD WHERE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE 0.05 2. LV: U.S. ARMY ARMOURED CAR, WITH SOLDIER MANNING GUN TURRET, STANDS GUARD ON STREET CORNER 0.10 3. GV: U.S. SOLDIERS STAND GUARD AMIDST MILITARY VEHICLES ON STREET 0.16 4. MV: U.S. SOLDIER WEARING HELMET AND BALACLAV
  • Embargoed: 22nd December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8CB3ITY38L9RX0DWWC9FN23FU
  • Story Text: Roadside bomb kills one U.S. soldier and wounds two
    others in Mosul.



    Guerrillas blew apart a U.S. Humvee with a roadside
    bomb in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Sunday (December
    7), killing one American soldier and wounding two in the
    latest deadly strike on occupying forces.

    They staged the ambush the day after U.S. Secretary of
    Defense Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the war to oust
    Saddam Hussein, visited Iraq for meetings with top
    commanders and said the U.S. mission was on the right path.

    Sergeant Kelly Tyler of the 101st Airborne Division
    told Reuters that explosives were detonated as a U.S.

    convoy drove past in Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city.

    Police who rushed to the scene said the blast destroyed
    a Humvee in the three-vehicle convoy.

    According to the latest Pentagon figures, 307 U.S.

    soldiers have been killed in action since the start of the
    war to topple Saddam, 192 of them since President George W.

    Bush declared major combat over on May 1.

    Rumsfeld has come under fire over postwar planning for
    Iraq, as guerrillas mount daring attacks against U.S.

    forces and their allies as well as Iraqis cooperating with
    the occupation.

    But Rumsfeld said during his visit that security was
    improving and Iraqi forces were taking over more of the
    burden of stabilising the country.

    Iraqi security personnel trained by the United States
    now outnumber the nearly 130,000 U.S. troops in the
    country.

    On Saturday (December 6), an Iraqi policeman was killed
    in Mosul in a drive-by shooting. Police said Omar Saleh was
    shot dead as he left his house to go to work. Police have
    often been targeted in shootings and bomb attacks in Iraq.


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