9 soldiers killed in attacks north of Baghdad

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A soldier from the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., scans his sector for threats in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 8 during Operation Raider Harvest.


9 soldiers killed in attacks north of Baghdad
Staff report
Posted : Wednesday Jan 9, 2008 17:29:46 EST

Six U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded Wednesday when an improvised explosive device was detonated in a house they were searching in Diyala province, according to a Multi-National Division-Baghdad press release.

The Army also announced that three U.S. soldiers were killed and two were wounded Tuesday in an attack in Salahuddin province to the east.

An incident in which a building is booby-trapped is described by the Army as a “house borne improvised explosive device” or HBIED.

The soldiers in both attacks were assigned to Multi-National Division-North, which is headquartered in Tikrit about 80 miles north of Baghdad, under the command and control of the 1st Armored Division.

In a separate press release Wednesday, the Army announced that soldiers with Troop B, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, using air strikes, killed four extremists and destroyed an HBIED near Khan Bani Sa’ad, in Diyala province Iraq, on Sunday.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/army_houseexplosion_080109w/



uhc comment: Current death toll in Iraq: 3,921 --> http://icasualties.org/oif/