Ten US troops killed as Iraq debate heats up

Published: Sunday May 27, 2007
Ten more American soldiers have been killed in fighting in Iraq, the military announced on Sunday, on the eve of war-weary Washington's annual Memorial Day commemoration of its war dead.
But in a victory for US and Iraqi forces, troops liberated 41 people from an Al-Qaeda run torture facility in a lawless province northeast of Baghdad.
Most of the 10 US soldiers were slain in and around Baghdad, the epicentre of Iraq's vicious sectarian conflict and the focus of a controversial 28,000-strong surge in US troop numbers, which is due to peak next month.
Four soldiers were killed in two attacks in the Sunni province of Salaheddin on Saturday, while another four were killed in blasts in the capital. A marine and another soldier died in combat north and west of the capital.
More than 100 US troops have been killed in May so far, while two are still missing two weeks after being snatched by Al-Qaeda, putting the month on course to be one of the bloodiest in the four years since the March 2003 invasion.
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