The campaign in Iraq has claimed a soldier believed to be the second American Jewish military casualty. David Bernstein, 24, of Phoenixville, Pa., a first lieutenant with the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade based in Camp Ederle, Italy, was killed in Taza, Iraq, when enemy forces ambushed his patrol with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire.
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