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Iraq Gunman Fires on U.S. Soldiers at Compound, Killing Two, Injuring Nine
Loading ...A man wearing an Iraqi army uniform fired on a group of American soldiers yesterday, killing two and wounding nine, the U.S. military said.
The shooting took place in an Iraqi army compound near the northern city of Tuz in Salahadin province during a meeting between an U.S. commander and Iraqi soldiers, the military said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. An investigation is ongoing, it said. Tuz, 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Baghdad, is populated mostly by ethnic Turkmen and Kurds.
It was the second time the U.S. military in the country has been involved in a shootout since Aug. 31, when the Obama administration announced the official end to American combat operations and handed control of security to Iraq. About 50,000 U.S. troops remain to advise and train Iraqi forces before a full withdrawal by the end of next year.
“This is a tragic and cowardly act,” the senior U.S. commander in northern Iraq, Major General Tony Cucolo of the Third Infantry Division, said in the statement. The attack is “not reflective of the Iraqi security forces.”
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