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Remember that new "strategy" (which is really a tactic) of placing troops in outposts? It turns out that the nine American soldiers killed yesterday by a suicide bomber were in one of those isolated outposts:

BAGHDAD, April 24 -- A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged truck into a U.S. military outpost near Baqubah on Monday, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 in one of the deadliest single ground attacks on U.S. forces since the start of the war in Iraq, military officials said early Tuesday.

Suicide attackers rarely penetrate defenses that surround American troops, but a 10-week-old U.S. counterinsurgency strategy has placed them in outposts and police stations that some soldiers say have made them more vulnerable.

More vulnerable for sure. And it's not the first Alamo attack. The insurgents now have a new set of targets that are relatively thinly guarded and often infilitrated. If I were a soldiers, I'd be increadibly pissed at being put in such vulnerable conditions.