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US: US soldier opens fire, kills 5 fellow troops
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 05 - 2009


A U.S. soldier opened fire on fellow troops
Monday, killing five before being taken into custody, the
U.S. command said, AP reported.
The shooting occurred at Camp Liberty, a sprawling U.S.
base on the western edge of Baghdad near the city's
international airport and adjacent to another facility
where President Barack Obama visited last month.
A brief U.S. statement said the soldier «suspected of
being involved with the shooting» was in custody but gave
no further details. It was unclear what provoked the
attack.
Separately, the military announced Monday that a U.S.
soldier was also killed a day earlier when a roadside bomb
exploded near his vehicle in Basra province of southern
Baghdad.
The death toll from the Monday shooting was the highest
for U.S. personnel in a single attack since April 10, when
a suicide truck driver killed five American soldiers with a
blast near a police headquarters in Mosul.
Attacks on officers and sergeants, known as fraggings,
were not uncommon during the Vietnam war as morale in the
ranks sank. However, such attacks are believed to be rare
in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2003, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death for
killing two officers in Kuwait just before the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq of 2003.
In June 2005, an Army captain and lieutenant were killed
when an anti-personnel mine detonated in the window of
their room at the U.S. base in Tikrit. A National Guard
sergeant was acquitted in the blast.
Additionally, there have been several incidents recently
when gunmen dressed as Iraqi soldiers have opened fire on
American troops, including an attack in the northern city
of Mosul on May 2 in which two soldiers and the gunman were
killed.


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