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Truck bomb hits Stryker; one soldier dead, nine wounded

Oct-11-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

The following is a more detailed article about the incident from Matthew Cox of Army Times.

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By Matthew Cox, Times staff writer

MOSUL, Iraq — Insurgents steered a bomb-packed pick-up truck toward a Stryker combat vehicle and set off the deadly cargo, killing one soldier and wounding nine others in the southwestern part of the city. The attack came this morning as a unit with the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division was returning from a combat mission to clear a section of the Al Amel neighborhood of people who have been using the area to mount attacks on coalition forces along main roads here.

[A]bout a battalion’s worth of Stryker vehicles from Task Force Olympia, along with about 250 Iraqi National Guard soldiers, began the hunt for insurgents just before 8 a.m. near the intersection of two main roads here just west of the Tigris River.

Stryker elements shut down traffic heading into two main traffic circles and surrounded the area as soldiers dismounted from Stryker infantry carriers and cleared housing areas overlooking the main roads that insurgents have used to trigger vehicle-carried improvised explosive devices.

Iraqi National Guard members helped to clear the area which included a mosque and a massive graveyard.

Insurgents tried but failed in a similar attack on Stryker units when the United States conducted a related mission earlier this month.

During the planning phase of this operation, unit leaders stressed the likelihood of a possible attack as units returned to their nearby base.

They were right.

There's a bit more, so be sure to follow the link and read the rest.


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