Two American soldiers killed in Musil, Haditha
Iraq, Military, 1/16/2006

The American army announced the killing of two of its soldiers in two separate incidents in Musl and Haditha.

A statement by the American army said that a traffic accident took place between one American military car and an Iraqi car in Musil today and this resulted in killing one soldier and injuring the other while four Iraqis were killed in the accident.

One Iraqi police officer said that the US military car crashed one sedan car in the agricultural quarters and this resulted in killing its driver and three women who were inside it.

This came after the American army announced in a statement the killing of one soldier in a situation that did not involve hostile fire, near the American base in Haditha dam, situated in al-Anbar governorate, west Iraq.

In Karkouk, the Iraqi police said it found two bodies, one of them is for a senior officer in the Maghaweir of the ministry of interior and the second is for his driver in the same place where a director of an elementary school was killed on Saturday evening. One police officer said that "col. Muhammad Mahrous and his driver were found hand roped with bullet traces on the head.

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