Bomb Attacks in Iraq Kill Two U.S. Soldiers
Wed November 12, 2003 07:53 AM ET

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, the American military said on Wednesday.

North of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, one soldier was killed and two wounded when their vehicle drove over a bomb planted on a road on Tuesday evening.

"A 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) which detonated under the vehicle he was traveling in," spokeswoman Major Josslyn Aberle said.

A military statement said a bomb attack in Baghdad earlier on Tuesday fatally injured a 1st Armored Division soldier and wounded two. He died of his wounds around 9 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Tuesday, five hours after the attack.

The attacks brought to at least 155 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.

Washington blames loyalists of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and foreign guerrillas for the increasing attacks on U.S.-led occupation.

It is, indeed, a "quagmire." All in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.