IRAQ: TWO U.S. SOLDIERS HAVE THEIR THROATS CUT BY ATTACKERS WHILE THEIR VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY IN TRAFFIC IN MOSUL

Record ID: 355605

  • Title: IRAQ: TWO U.S. SOLDIERS HAVE THEIR THROATS CUT BY ATTACKERS WHILE THEIR VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY IN TRAFFIC IN MOSUL
  • Date: 23rd November 2003
  • Summary: (W4) MOSUL, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 23, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS U.S. SOLDIERS DEPLOYED AROUND THE TWO BODIES AND THE CAR (5 SHOTS) 0.19 2. TILT: U.S. HELICOPTERS CIRCLING OVER THE SITE OF ATTACK 0.26 3. LONG VIEWS OF ATTACK SCENE (3 SHOTS) 0.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAAHYEAKU0EGZLMN2KFK8PVIWP6
  • Story Text: Attackers slit the throats of two U.S. soldiers
    while their vehicle was stopped in traffic


    Eye-witnesses said the attackers slit the throats of
    two American soldiers who were driving in a white civilian
    car in the Ras al-Jadah area in the city of Mosul on Sunday
    (November 23). They said that one American was also wounded
    in the attack.

    A spokesman for the U.S. 101st Airborne Division,
    based in Mosul, confirmed two soldiers had been killed in
    central Mosul but had no further details.

    U.S. soldiers surrounded the vehicle, a white
    four-wheel-drive car, and interrogated Iraqis in the area,
    the witnesses said.

    The attack brought to 184 the number of U.S.

    soldiers who have been killed in action since Washington
    declared major combat in Iraq over on May 1.

    Mosul has seen less guerrilla activity than Baghdad in
    recent months, but there has been a surge of attacks in the
    ethnically diverse northern city over the past few days.

    Last week guerrilla fighters in Mosul city shot down
    two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters, killing 17 soldiers, and
    wounding five others.


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