Insurgents hit a U.S. base in central Iraq with mortar shells, killing one American soldier, and two other soldiers were killed by a homemade bomb while patrolling south of Baghdad, the military said Saturday. The mortars struck a base of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division near Balad, about 50 miles northwest of Baghdad on Friday night, Sgt. Robert Cargie said. One of the shells exploded near a trailer used as a bedroom by some troops, and a soldier standing in its doorway was killed, he said. Two other soldiers were struck by shrapnel and taken to a combat support hospital, where they were in stable condition, Cargie said. Full Story
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