Military Says 6 Servicemen Die in Iraq
by AP
Link to Article Two U.S. Marines and three U.S. soldiers were killed in separate attacks, while another American soldier died of non-combat injuries in Iraq, the U.S. military said Monday.A roadside bomb killed a soldier of the 1/34th Brigade Combat Team who was conducting a convoy escort mission north of Baghdad on Monday, the military said. A separate statement from the U.S. military in Balad also said a soldier with the 15th Sustainment Brigade died of non-combat injuries on Monday. The military said two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 were killed Sunday in fighting in the volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad, while a roadside bomb killed a soldier from the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division near the northern city of Mosul.Another soldier, from the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, was killed Sunday by a roadside bomb near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, the military said. The names of the dead were being withheld until military officials could contact their families. At least 2,653 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. If you have accounts on these bookmarking sites, you can post this story to share it with others.
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