surge update - 8 U.S. Soldiers Killed in 2 Iraq Attacks

[spanone]

BAGHDAD — A man walked up to a group of American soldiers on foot patrol in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad on Monday and detonated the explosives-filled vest he was wearing, killing five soldiers and wounding three others and an Iraqi interpreter who accompanied them.

In eastern Diyala Province, north of the capital, three more American soldiers and an interpreter were also killed Monday when they were attacked with an improvised bomb, according to the military, which did not release any more details.

Another soldier was wounded in the blast.

The suicide bombing in Baghdad was the deadliest single attack on American soldiers in the capital since the height of the troop buildup here last summer. Nine Iraqi civilians were also wounded in the blast, according to officials at Yarmuk Hospital, where the victims were taken.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-iraq.html?_r=1&sq=8%20soldiers%20killed%20in%20iraq&st=nyt&oref=slogin&scp=1&pagewanted=print

[global1]

1. I Haven't Seen Totals Lately - We Must Be Near 4000?.......nt

[spanone]

2. 3,9 8 3

THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHT THREE

[alfredo]

3. So sad, soon we could be counting the dead in Iran.