| Show US U.S. Deaths in Iraq War reach Freeman The Washington Post PostA PostA PostA A roadside bomb killed four US U.S. soldiers on patrol in southern Baghdad late Sunday the military said in a statement Monday taking the overall US U.S. death toll in the year five-year Iraq war to at least Earlier mortar and rocket attacks pounded the Green Zone the heavily fortified U.S. U.S.- Iraqi military and government complex on a day when more than 60 people were killed in violence across the country The Green Zone assault began shortly before 6 am a.m. waking US U.S. military personnel then resumed later in the day and continued into the evening Four people received medical treatment US U.S. Embassy spokesman Philip said He said he did not know the identities of those injured or their medical status No group asserted responsibility but similar attacks in the past have hav been n tied to Shiite extremist groups The fatal attack on the US U.S. patrol in Baghdad also injured one soldier but further details were not available The US U.S. death toll of includes eight Defense Department civilians The Green Zone shelling and the other attacks across Iraq marked an escalation on of violence at the start of the wars war's sixth year 9 In the northern city of a suicide attacker detonated an laden explosives-laden truck after fter driving through the main gate of an Iraqi army headquarters The blast killed 15 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 42 exploded in the western neighborhood of at about pm p.m. killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding seven Gunmen in the southern part of the capital opened fire in a market killing six civilians and injuring 17 others Also in southern Baghdad Baghdad US U.S. forces in helicopters killed 15 gunmen and injured 17 according to Interior Ministry sources r r. |
