Three soldiers with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division were killed in an ambush here early this morning that involved what one local resident said was an attack by insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov assault rifles. Military officials offered no information about who was behind the attack, and the ambush undermined hopes that the killing on Tuesday of Saddam Hussein’s two sons, Uday and Qusay, would weaken resistance to American forces. The attack was the second serious strike against American troops in the last two days in and around the large northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where soldiers from the 101st joined with the Special Forces in a raid that killed the two Hussein heirs as they hid out in a home in a wealthy neighborhood. On Wednesday morning, one American soldier was killed and six were wounded in Mosul when a remotely detonated bomb exploded as their convoy was driving on the outskirts of the city. Full Story
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