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| US troops 'killed by colleague' | |
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| A US soldier has shot dead five of his colleagues at a base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Pentagon says. | |
| An earlier military statement said the incident happened at Camp Liberty near Baghdad's international airport at about 1400 (1100 GMT). | |
| No further details have been released by the Pentagon or the military. | |
| The shooting is the deadliest single incident for US forces in Iraq since 10 April, when five soldiers were killed by a truck bomb in the city of Mosul. | |
| Earlier this month, a man in an Iraqi army uniform shot dead two US soldiers and injured three others at a base near Mosul. | |
| Iraqi military reports said he was a soldier also working as an imam at a mosque on the base. | Iraqi military reports said he was a soldier also working as an imam at a mosque on the base. |
| Analysts say violence in Iraq has dropped sharply over the past two years, but insurgent attacks continue and there has been a spate of bombings recently. | Analysts say violence in Iraq has dropped sharply over the past two years, but insurgent attacks continue and there has been a spate of bombings recently. |
| US forces are due to withdraw combat troops from Iraq by August 2010. | US forces are due to withdraw combat troops from Iraq by August 2010. |