December : Attack is deadliest on U.S. forces in more than a year . Suicide bomber bombs truck at national police headquarters in Baghdad . Five Americans among eight dead ; 60 others wounded . A U.S. soldier was also among the wounded , the U.S. military said . Mosul , 260 miles north of Baghdad , the last urban stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq .
December : Attack is deadliest on U.S. forces in more than a year . Suicide bomber bombs truck at national police headquarters in Baghdad . Five Americans among eight dead ; 60 others wounded . Mosul , 260 miles north of Baghdad , the last urban stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq .