Military: 7 soldiers in Saturday ambush from Fort Drum

A member of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division scans the surroundings on a mission in the area known as the 'Triangle of Death' in April

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- The seven American victims of a weekend ambush in Iraq were members of the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Army officials in Iraq said Tuesday.

The attack near Mahmoudiya, in a Sunni stronghold 20 miles south of Baghdad, left four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator dead, and three other soldiers missing...

Military officials have not released the names of the soldiers but confirmed they were assigned to Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Polar Bears," said Staff Sgt. Angela McKinzie, a public affairs officer at the Multi-National Division headquarters in Baghdad.

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