Updated at 5:55 p.m. EDT, May 29, 2007
At least 12 new U.S. servicemember deaths were reported today, making May the bloodiest month since 2004. So far, at least 116 Americans were killed in Iraq in May, including 10 who were killed on Memorial Day. Several Westerners and their bodyguards were abducted in a daring attack in Baghdad. Also, at least 83 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 111 were wounded in other violent events.
The U.S. military reports that six Task Force Lightning soldiers were killed and three wounded in explosions that occurred near their vehicles in Diyala province yesterday. Another two TFL soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash, which is under investigation. In Baghdad on Monday, two MND-B soldiers were killed in an IED attack. A soldier was killed on Saturday in a roadside bomb attack near Balad. Also, a soldier, who was wounded on May 4 in a Baghded IED attack died of his wounds on May 24 at the Bethesda Medical Center.
In Baghdad, three German computer experts and several of their bodyguards were kidnapped from a Finance Ministry building by gunmen wearing police commando uniforms. Police commandos are a much hated and feared unit, operating outside of the normal police ranks.
A bomb on a bus in Tayaran Square killed 38 people and wounded at least 53 others. Over an hour later a truck bomb in an Amil car parts market killed 17, injured 55, and set fire to several cars while damaging a numbers of buildings and a Shi’ite mosque.
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