Rocket attacks hit Mosul basesBy Heath Druzin, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, March 5, 2009
MOSUL, Iraq — A U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday night during a barrage of rockets at Forward Operating Base Diamondback outside this violent northern city.
The base and the adjacent Forward Operating Base Marez shook with what sounded like at least nine blasts.
An eyewitness on Diamondback said he saw rescue workers pull the soldier from a residential area of "containerized housing units," or CHUs.
The soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, military officials said.
At least six soldiers and two coalition interpreters have been killed in less than a month in this insurgent stronghold as U.S. forces push an offensive to rid the city of militants.
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