arms fire attack kills U.S. soldier in Iraq

A U.S. soldier deployed in northern
Iraq was killed in a small-arms fire attack, the military
said Friday.
The Task Force Freedom soldier was shot in Mosul on
Thursday, the military said in a statement.
A separate assault in Mosul on Wednesday took the life of
another U.S. soldier, who died in a car bomb attack while
patrolling the volatile city. Three other soldiers were
wounded in the blast.
Mosul is 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
As is customary in the military, the deceased soldiers'
names were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
As of Thursday, at least 1,471 members of the U.S.
military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in
March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.