US Army Reports 17 Dead Over Last Three
Days
Seventeen dead in Iraq between June 1st to 4th. A group of
insurgents attacked a large US base in Baquaba using a car gas/bomb that
left dozens of people Sunday, punctuating a flurry of violence that left
16 American soldiers dead during the first three days of June.
The noxious gas cloud emanated from a bomb that exploded Sunday near the
main gate of Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the largest U.S. military
facility in Diyala province.
On Sunday, the U.S. military announced that a series of other bombings
and shootings, most of them in and around Baghdad, took the lives of 15
soldiers and wounded at least 22 since Friday. The independent website
icasualties.org, which tracks U.S. military deaths, said another soldier
also had been killed during the that time frame.
