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08-22-2010, 01:08 PM
Soldier killed by rocket in southern Iraq
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Aug 22, 2010 11:28:32 EDT
BAGHDAD — An American solider was killed Sunday in a rocket attack in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said, the first American fatality since the last combat unit in Iraq pulled out of the country last week.
Army Lt. Col. Bob Owen, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, said the attack took place while the solider was conducting operations in Basra province.
Owen declined to elaborate, and a U.S. military statement provided no further details, saying only that the incident is under investigation.
The name of the deceased soldier was being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The death raises to at least 4,416 the number of U.S. military personal killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The fatality came after the last U.S. combat unit left Iraq last week. About 50,000 U.S. troops will stay another year in Iraq in what is designated as a noncombat role.
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Aug 22, 2010 11:28:32 EDT
BAGHDAD — An American solider was killed Sunday in a rocket attack in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said, the first American fatality since the last combat unit in Iraq pulled out of the country last week.
Army Lt. Col. Bob Owen, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, said the attack took place while the solider was conducting operations in Basra province.
Owen declined to elaborate, and a U.S. military statement provided no further details, saying only that the incident is under investigation.
The name of the deceased soldier was being withheld pending notification of next of kin. The death raises to at least 4,416 the number of U.S. military personal killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The fatality came after the last U.S. combat unit left Iraq last week. About 50,000 U.S. troops will stay another year in Iraq in what is designated as a noncombat role.