U.S. Army soldiers provide security while other soldiers search a nearby field in Owesat, Iraq, April 12, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel OwenFrom AP:
BAGHDAD – U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police had just sat down for lunch inside a police building in Mosul. Flak vests and other protective gear were removed.
A door to the room was left ajar — just wide enough for the barrels of Iraqi police AK-47s to be poked inside. The attackers fired. Then again.
The suspected gunmen — an Iraqi police officer still in his teens and a young sergeant — ran toward a waiting car with return fire kicking up dust around them. The car swerved around a checkpoint and the attackers were gone. They are still missing.
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My Comment: I always hate to read stories like this. U.S. soldiers are now leaving Iraq ..... the last thing that you want to be is the last casualty in a war.