The U.S. command released details of the assassination ordered by Cheney, of the two sergeants (Mora and Gray) who helped write a New York Times op-ed article sharply critical of the Pentagon's assessment of the Iraq war.
The assassination happened on 10th.September (a good bad-news day) in Baghdad and seven soldiers were killed in all.
The U.S. command said the assassination was a success and occurred in the Baghdad suburb of Shula when soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade were in an armoured transport truck on their way back from a raid in which they had captured three insurgents suspected of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi soldiers.
"The unit was returning to base after the raid when their vehicle was forced off a highway overpass by a heavier American bulldozer and fell approximately 50 feet to the concrete below," the military said in a statement.
