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BAGHDAD - An attacker wearing an Iraqi army uniform shot to death two U.S. soldiers outside the volatile northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
"We have reports of a small arms fire attack in Hamam al-Alil, 12.5 miles south of Mosul," said Major Derrick Cheng, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province.
"There are initial reports of two U.S. soldiers killed in the attack ... According to initial reports, an individual dressed in an Iraqi army uniform fired on the coalition forces and was killed in the incident."
Three U.S. soldiers were injured and the attacker killed, said a military statement reported by The Associated Press.
An Iraqi police lieutenant-colonel in Mosul, who declined to be named, said the man who shot the U.S. soldiers was an Iraqi soldier who also acted as an imam at an Iraqi military training center in Hamam al-Alil.
He said the American soldiers were doing exercises in the training center's yard at the time of the attack.
Saad Ali al-Jubouri, mayor of Hammam al-Alil, said he saw U.S. helicopters hovering the area in the aftermath of the attack and said the roads leading to the training center had been sealed off.
Mosul and Nineveh are a last remaining bastion of al Qaeda and about a dozen other Sunni Arab insurgent groups and the city is still rocked by frequent shootings and bombings.
Some of those insurgent groups have infiltrated Iraqi forces in the past.
U.S. troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June under a bilateral security pact but U.S. officials say that, if the Iraqi government requests it, Mosul may be the sole exception.
The incident was not the first of its kind in Nineveh. Last November, an Iraqi soldier went on the rampage at a joint security station in Mosul, shooting dead two U.S. soldiers and wounding six. The U.S. military blamed the attack on al Qaeda.
In December 2007, an Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. troops during a joint patrol in Mosul, killing two and wounding three.
Source: Gunman in Iraqi uniform kills 2 U.S. soldiers - Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com
"We have reports of a small arms fire attack in Hamam al-Alil, 12.5 miles south of Mosul," said Major Derrick Cheng, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Mosul and surrounding Nineveh province.
"There are initial reports of two U.S. soldiers killed in the attack ... According to initial reports, an individual dressed in an Iraqi army uniform fired on the coalition forces and was killed in the incident."
Three U.S. soldiers were injured and the attacker killed, said a military statement reported by The Associated Press.
An Iraqi police lieutenant-colonel in Mosul, who declined to be named, said the man who shot the U.S. soldiers was an Iraqi soldier who also acted as an imam at an Iraqi military training center in Hamam al-Alil.
He said the American soldiers were doing exercises in the training center's yard at the time of the attack.
Saad Ali al-Jubouri, mayor of Hammam al-Alil, said he saw U.S. helicopters hovering the area in the aftermath of the attack and said the roads leading to the training center had been sealed off.
Mosul and Nineveh are a last remaining bastion of al Qaeda and about a dozen other Sunni Arab insurgent groups and the city is still rocked by frequent shootings and bombings.
Some of those insurgent groups have infiltrated Iraqi forces in the past.
U.S. troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June under a bilateral security pact but U.S. officials say that, if the Iraqi government requests it, Mosul may be the sole exception.
The incident was not the first of its kind in Nineveh. Last November, an Iraqi soldier went on the rampage at a joint security station in Mosul, shooting dead two U.S. soldiers and wounding six. The U.S. military blamed the attack on al Qaeda.
In December 2007, an Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. troops during a joint patrol in Mosul, killing two and wounding three.
Source: Gunman in Iraqi uniform kills 2 U.S. soldiers - Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com
