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According to the Department of Defense, he was killed by a sniper round in the chest while he was leading his platoon of four tanks and 16 men, of Company C, 1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division, against Shiite insurgents and supporters of the anti-American cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, holding the Mukhayam mosque in central Karbala.
The headmaster of Wakefield Country Day School in Flint Hill
See FATALITY, Page A6
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