Five U.S. Soldiers Killed Amid Wave of Violence in Iraq
Submitted on June 7, 2011
By Bill Van Auken - 7 June 2011
Five US soldiers were killed in a wave of violence that claimed at least 20 other lives across Iraq Monday. It was the worst single-day combat death toll for US occupation forces since April 2009...Iraqi officials...revealed that the deaths were the result of a rocket attack on Camp Victory, a US-built base near Baghdad’s international airport. Five rockets were fired into the facility, striking near living quarters of the US troops.
