Iraq

(AP) Five US soldiers died in three separate attacks.

(AP) Four British soldiers killed in a combined IED ambush.

(E&P) Regarding the two soldiers recently reported as friendly fire deaths "One of the soldiers died just hours after arriving in Iraq -- and was one of those troops rushed to the country in the "surge" who did not receive full training."

(Reuters) Army Lt. Col. Donald Robinson, the head of the Army Trauma Training Center, talks about preparing medics for "the superbowl of trauma." "Robinson says he can't remember how many amputations he performed.... "They were too numerous to count."

(Reuters) Another helicopter down.