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April 30, 2006

Texas troops want payback for comrades slain in Iraq

By DOUG J. SWANSON / The Dallas Morning News

They were on a routine mission, down a road they had traveled only hours before, only two miles from the gate. Then a bomb turned their Humvee into a roaring fireball and instantly killed all four U.S. Army infantrymen inside.That meant six men dead in only 11 days at this outpost of the Texas-based 4th Infantry Division. Soldiers here wanted to strike back hard at the enemy who picks them off with impunity ...

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