D'après Reuters version Etat-Unis:
"Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three wounded while repelling the attack." It made no mention of attackers killed or detained and officials did not immediately respond to queries on how the assailants' identity was established.
CONVOY
An Iraqi local government official who said he was in the building throughout questioned the identification of those who fought the U.S. troops posted outside a joint U.S.-Iraqi base, in the provincial governor's headquarters, just after dark.
Describing how a convoy of half a dozen white, U.S.-made, unmarked four-wheel drive vehicles approached the compound around 6 p.m. (1500 GMT), he said armed men in the convoy exchanged heavy fire with U.S. soldiers.