4,000 Search for Missing GIs in Iraq

Keeping thoughts on all families and troops involved:

The U.S. military on Sunday confirmed that an Iraqi interpreter was killed along with four U.S. Soldiers in an attack south of Baghdad, leaving three American Soldiers missing.A U.S. statement Saturday said only that a patrol of seven American Soldiers and an Iraqi army translator had been attacked [related video] and that five people were killed and three were missing. ...

[A]bout 4,000 American forces were involved in the search for the three missing troops in the notorious "triangle of death" south of the capital. ... The military said the patrol was struck Saturday in a pre-dawn explosion near Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad - an al-Qaida area where two U.S. Soldiers were found massacred after disappearing at a checkpoint nearly a year ago.