I dislike linking to the BBC, but this report of the missing Americans in Iraq has more detail than AP’s version:
"The patrol of seven Americans and their Iraqi interpreter were attacked near the town of Mahmudiya, spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell said. He said that within an hour other troops were at the scene of the attack, hunting for the [3] missing soldiers. Checkpoints have been set up to prevent the soldiers being moved from the area."
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 