The Abduction
Two HMMWVs, each carrying four soldiers from 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division were sitting on a road along the Euphrates River several miles west of Mahmudiyah when the insurgents, who had been observing them for two nights, attacked. They fired guns and hurled grenades into the vehicles, killing the four Americans and an Iraqi soldier; they then set the vehicles on fire with extra fuel and took the three captured soldiers with them.
The four U.S. Army soldiers were killed in the incident were:
- Sergeant First Class James D. Connell, 40 years old
- Specialist Daniel W. Courneya, 19 years old
- Corporal Christopher E. Murphy, 21 years old
- Sergeant Anthony J. Schober, 23 years old (remains were identified later)
At the time, the capture represented the second-largest capture of American soldiers in the war, the worst since the March 23, 2003 capture of Jessica Lynch and five other soldiers.
Read more about this topic: May 2007 Abduction Of US Soldiers In Iraq
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