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Washington Post
May 22, 2007
Pg. 12
BAGHDAD -- U.S. soldiers raided suspected safe houses near the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on Monday in their search for three captured comrades but found them empty after the militants apparently were tipped off and fled, a military spokesman said.
It was the latest in a series of frustrations for exhausted U.S. troops hunting for any sign of the trio missing since a May 12 assault on an outpost by insurgents linked to the group al-Qaeda in Iraq. Four other Americans and an interpreter died in the attack.
Several mortar shells hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, one striking the Iraqi parliament building but causing no casualties. The attack was the latest in near daily barrages on the nerve center of the U.S. mission and Iraqi government.
At least 58 Iraqis were killed by attacks or found dead across Iraq, including seven people ambushed on a bus northeast of Baghdad, police said. The dead included 24 men whose bullet-riddled bodies were found across Baghdad, apparent victims of sectarian death squads.
May 22, 2007
Pg. 12
BAGHDAD -- U.S. soldiers raided suspected safe houses near the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on Monday in their search for three captured comrades but found them empty after the militants apparently were tipped off and fled, a military spokesman said.
It was the latest in a series of frustrations for exhausted U.S. troops hunting for any sign of the trio missing since a May 12 assault on an outpost by insurgents linked to the group al-Qaeda in Iraq. Four other Americans and an interpreter died in the attack.
Several mortar shells hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, one striking the Iraqi parliament building but causing no casualties. The attack was the latest in near daily barrages on the nerve center of the U.S. mission and Iraqi government.
At least 58 Iraqis were killed by attacks or found dead across Iraq, including seven people ambushed on a bus northeast of Baghdad, police said. The dead included 24 men whose bullet-riddled bodies were found across Baghdad, apparent victims of sectarian death squads.