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Bomb attack kills soldier wounds two { December 7 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=804573&tw=wn_wire_story http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=804573&tw=wn_wire_story Bomb Attack Kills U.S. Soldier, Wounds Two in Iraq Sunday, December 07, 2003 7:16 a.m. ET By Seb Walker MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas blew apart a U.S. Humvee with a roadside bomb in the northern Iraq city of Mosul Sunday, killing one American soldier and wounding two in the latest deadly strike on occupying forces. They staged the ambush the day after Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the war to oust Saddam Hussein, visited Iraq for meetings with top commanders and said the U.S. mission was on the right path. Sergeant Kelly Tyler of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters that explosives were detonated as a U.S. convoy drove past in Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city. Police who rushed to the scene said the blast destroyed a Humvee in the three-vehicle convoy. "We heard an explosion and ran toward it. I saw four U.S. soldiers lying on the ground, with their Humvee destroyed," policeman Hamid Saleh said. According to the latest Pentagon figures, 307 U.S. soldiers have been killed in action since the start of the war to topple Saddam, 192 of them since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1. Rumsfeld has come under fire over postwar planning for Iraq, as guerrillas mount daring attacks against U.S. forces and their allies as well as Iraqis cooperating with the occupation. But he said during his visit that security was improving and Iraqi forces were taking over more of the burden of stabilizing the country. "There have been a lot of people who have said 'oh my goodness, you ought to have more troops, you ought to do this, and something else ought to be done'," Rumsfeld said. "But I am convinced that the direction that we set from the outset is the right one and that is being executed exceedingly well, and that the security circumstances in the country will be passed over time to Iraqi security forces of various types, and that they will be able to do it." Rumsfeld said he would like to speed up the recruitment, training and deployment of Iraqis serving in various security forces backed by the United States. Iraqi security personnel trained by the United States now outnumber the nearly 130,000 U.S. troops in the country. "Foreign forces ultimately are unnatural, they ought not to be in a country," Rumsfeld said. Saturday, an Iraqi policeman was killed in Mosul in a drive-by shooting. Police said Omar Saleh was shot dead as he left his house to go to work. Police have often been targeted in shootings and bomb attacks in Iraq.

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