Army colonel with St. Louis ties dies in Iraq (Green Zone)

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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An Army colonel with ties to the St. Louis area was killed Sunday while serving in Iraq, according to his family's pastor.

Col. Stephen Scott, 54, was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad overseeing the transition of security forces to the Iraqi government, said the Rev. David McAlpin of the First Baptist Church of Harvester in St. Charles. He had been working at the Pentagon in recent years, but grew up in the St. Louis area.

Scott was exercising Sunday in the protected Green Zone when the building was struck by mortar fire and he was killed, McAlpin said the family was told by military officials.

A military official said Sunday that two U.S. soldiers died and 17 were wounded in an attack on the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government headquarters in central Baghdad, The Associated Press reported. The Department of Defense had not identified those victims as of Monday night.

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