Bomb kills 5 U.S. soldiers in Mosul

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

BAGHDAD -- In a daring ambush, insurgents blasted a U.S. patrol with a roadside bomb Monday and showered survivors with gunfire from a mosque in increasingly lawless Mosul. Five American soldiers were killed in the explosion -- even as Iraqi troops moved into the northern city to challenge al-Qaida in Iraq.

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