Progress as promised

Three American soldiers were killed in separate incidents on Saturday, including two troops whose throats were reportedly slit by attackers as the GIs waited in traffic in the northern city of Mosul.

...Elsewhere, three American civilian contractors [Kellogg Brown & Root] were wounded in an explosion in the northern oil center Kirkuk.

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The 101st Airborne Division said its soldiers in Mosul were shot while driving between U.S. garrisons. Several witnesses also said the soldiers were shot during the attack in the Ras al-Jadda district, though earlier reports by witnesses said assailants slit the soldiers' throats.

Bahaa Jassim, a teenager, said the soldiers' vehicle crashed into a wall after the shooting. Several dozen passers-by then descended on the wreckage, looting the car of weapons and the soldiers' backpacks.

After the soldiers' bodies fell into the street, the crowd pummeled them with concrete blocks, Jassim said.