Car Bomb Kills Nine US Soldiers Outside Of Baghdad

The surge is going well, ask the decider, it is not his sons and daughters doing the dying

Associated Press April 23, 2007 08:50 PM

Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing against a patrol base northeast of Baghdad, the military said.


The attack occurred in Diyala province, a volatile area that has been the site of fierce fighting between U.S. and Iraqi troops, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias, according to a statement.

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-- Nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a bombing in Iraq's Diyala province near a patrol base, the U.S. military confirms.

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