Chicago Tribune | Iraqi mob mutilates 2 soldiers:
"…There were conflicting reports on whether the men were shot or slashed to death. Military spokesmen in Baghdad refused to discuss the attack in detail.

The 101st Airborne Division, the soldiers' unit, released a statement Sunday night that said the men were shot to death and 'that there was no official report of anything to do with stabbings or throat slashings.'"

Another military official Sunday night, however, acknowledged than an internal report found that soldiers were shot and slashed. The report had not determined how they died, he said, and the slashings may have happened in the mayhem after the men died.

"Their bodies were mutilated," the official said.

In Washington, the bloodletting in the streets of Mosul provided political fodder for Sunday talk shows as Democratic leaders challenged the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq and the escalating insurgency against the U.S-led coalition.

The incident, reported widely on satellite news broadcasts and Western and Arab Web news sites, underscored the vulnerability of the heavily armed American troops as they operate in urban areas of Iraq.…

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