Sixteen Americans Have Died Already This Year Mostly North

As the americans moved through vineyards and canals first lt. Sixteen americans have died already this year mostly north of baghdad and sunni militants have carried out devastating attacks in diyala against sunni militiamen who recently joined forces with american troops. The attacks were another sign that insurgents remained very strong in the sunni dominated cities and countryside north of baghdad. In villages near the insurgents’ supposed nerve center residents confirmed that carloads of armed and masked men operated freely until recently. Speaking to reporters in baghdad general hertling identified unsecured iraqi army communications as a possible reason the insurgents targets had managed to slip through the net as may have happened before an offensive in baquba last june. I’m sure there’s active leaking of communication” said the northern commander maj.