Bombs Kill 2 G.I.’s in Iraq as Death Toll Near Year’s High

05/27/2007

By DAMIEN CAVE
NY Times
Published: May 27, 2007


BAGHDAD, May 27 — Two more American soldiers have died from roadside bombs, the American military said Sunday, as American forces decided to run DNA tests on a body that could be that of one of the remaining two missing soldiers seized in an ambush on May 12 south of Baghdad.

Military officials warned that the body, found Sunday at an undisclosed location, did not initially appear to fit descriptions of either of the two missing soldiers, Specialist Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich. But the discovery of the body was significant enough to require DNA tests, military officials said, suggesting that the body was not clearly that of an Iraqi.

The confirmation of the deaths suggested that May could soon become the deadliest month of the year so far for American troops. With four days left in the month, not counting the unidentified body, 103 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, according to Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, an independent Web site that monitors civilian and military casualties. That was one death shy of the total for April, when 104 died, the highest monthly toll this year.

READ MORE: Click HERE