The Buffalo News:
The seven American victims of a weekend ambush in Iraq were members of the storied 10th Mountain Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team from Fort Drum in Northern New York, Army officials said Tuesday.
The attack near Mahmoudiya, in a Sunni stronghold 20 miles south of Baghdad, killed four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator and left three other soldiers missing. The Pentagon believes that the missing soldiers are in terrorist hands.
The Islamic State of Iraq — an al-Qaida front group that has claimed it captured the soldiers....
I've been praying to St. Anthony of Padua, who is known as the patron saint of lost items and missing people. Perhaps St. Anthony can lead our special search teams to the location of our captured troops. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families and friends of those killed in this latest incident and those who are missing and feared captured.
