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YUSUFIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two slain U.S. soldiers who went missing south of Baghdad were ambushed by as many as 30 insurgents who closed in on them in vehicles and opened fire, according to people who said on Wednesday they were witnesses. It was not possible to independently verify their accounts. The U.S. military has yet to explain how the soldiers may have been isolated in what Iraqis call "The Triangle of Death" for its frequent insurgent attacks. But two Iraqis who said they were witnesses gave similar accounts of the moments when Privates First Class Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25,...

From LtCol Smith:(to his wife and her friends) Ladies, It is with an extremely heavy heart and with much pain that I report to you the deaths of the following two heroes: 1. LCpl Richard D. Warner, Fox Co, 2nd Bn, 24th Marines, USMC 2. PFC Brent T. Vroman, Fox Co, 2nd Bn, 24th Marines, USMC Both were killed when an improvised explosive device, planted inside a parked vehicle in the market area of Yusufiyah, was detonated on their foot patrol. An Iraqi citizen was killed in the blast, and several more severely injured. The very market where local people...