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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6632332,00.html
Details of Attack on Convoy in Iraq

Monday May 14, 2007 9:01 PM

By The Associated Press

The U.S. military's account of
Saturday's attack on a U.S.-led
coalition convoy south of Baghdad
that killed four American soldiers
and an Iraqi soldier,

and left three American servicemen
missing and believed abducted by
militants linked to al-Qaida:

-U.S.-led forces patrol west of Mahmoudiya,
20 miles south of Baghdad, on a mission
seeking to stop insurgents planting roadside bombs.

-Soldiers hear an explosion at 4:44 a.m.

-Soldiers try to contact observation posts.

Seven American service members and an
Iraqi army soldier in two Humvees do
not respond.

An unmanned surveillance
aircraft is dispatched.

-At 4:59 a.m.,
the drone spots two burning vehicles.

Two military units are ordered to the scene.

En route,
the first discovers two roadside bombs,
and the second unit finds another.

-By 5:40 a.m.,
both units begin securing
the area and searching for
the soldiers.

-By 8:04 a.m.,
the responding units confirm
the deaths of five soldiers -

four found in their Humvees
and the fifth a short distance
away.