- MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) --
A bomb blast outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul
Saturday killed at least two U.S. soldiers, Iraqi police at the scene told
Reuters.
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- They said four U.S. soldiers had been driving past in
two civilian vehicles when the bomb was detonated.
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- "There was a huge blast. The two drivers of the
vehicles were definitely killed," said policeman Abdul-Rahman Fawaz,
who witnessed the explosion, his face spattered with blood.
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- Other police officers at the scene said they believed
three U.S. soldiers had been killed.
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- Soldiers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, in charge
of security in Mosul, were at the scene, but declined to comment.
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- Saturday's bombing raised to at least 120 the number
of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since major combat was declared over on
May 1 -- more than the 114 killed in action in the war in March and April.
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- Many Iraqis are on edge due to widespread talk that Saturday
has been declared a "day of resistance" by forces fighting the
U.S. occupation and that several major attacks are planned.
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- The U.S. blames loyalists of ousted Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein and foreign Islamic militants for the attacks.
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