Ambush kills US soldier.AN American soldier was killed when his convoy was ambushed in Baghdad and 19 US soldiers injured when mortar rounds hit their base. News of the two attacks brought a sombre som·bre adj. Chiefly British Variant of somber. sombre or US somber Adjective 1. serious, sad, or gloomy: a sombre message 2. start to American Independence Day celebrations for the 150,000 US troops stationed in Iraq. The base that came under fire is at Balan in the Sunni triangle The Sunni Triangle refers to a densely-populated region of Iraq to the northwest of Baghdad that is inhabited mostly by Sunni Muslim Arabs. The roughly triangular area's corners are usually said to lie near Baghdad (on the east side of the triangle), Ramadi (on the west side) and , an area 55 miles north and west of the capital where Saddam Hussein enjoyed his greatest support. The US yesterday announced a reward of up to pounds 15m for information leading to the capture of the former dictator. |
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