1 soldier killed, 18 wounded in car bombing

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1 soldier killed, 18 wounded in car bombing
By Sameer N. Yacoub - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Jun 9, 2008 6:21:05 EDT

BAGHDAD — A suicide truck bomber who concealed his explosives under tanned animal hides struck an American patrol base Sunday in northern Iraq, killing one soldier and wounding 20 other people, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

Eighteen of the wounded were American soldiers and two were Iraqi contractors working at the base in Tamim province, according to a brief statement from the military.

Three American soldiers were killed last Wednesday by gunfire in Tamim.

Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir, a senior officer in the Kirkuk police department, said the bomber targeted a U.S. patrol base in a mostly Sunni Arab residential area in Rashad, about 25 miles southwest of Kirkuk.

The suicide attacker rammed his vehicle into blast walls outside the gates of the small U.S. base, located in a residential neighborhood of Sunni Arabs, Qadir said. He added that the explosives were concealed under tanned animal hides.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/06/ap_casualties_iraq_060808/



uhc comment: icasualties.org appears to be down, so I cannot tell you the number of soldiers killed in the invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq.