The soldier was also killed on the same day that a US general said that the most US troops here would be out by mid-December. - DAWNUS Soldier Killed After Iraq Pullout Announcement -- AFP
BAGHDAD — A US soldier has been killed in northern Iraq, the US military said on Friday, the first American service member to die in an attack here since the US announced its forces would depart by year's end.
"A US service member was killed Thursday while conducting operations in northern Iraq," the military said in a brief statement, without providing further details.
An Iraqi security source told AFP that boys attacked an American convoy in the ethnically divided oil city of Kirkuk with a thermal bomb on Thursday.
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Update #1: US military: American service member dies in Iraq -- CBS/AP
Update #2: Iraq: American Soldier Killed -- New York Times
My Comment: The goal of every U.S. soldier in Iraq is now simple .... do not be the last U.S. soldier to die in that god-forsaken country.
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