7 Dec 2004

Another American Samoan dies in Iraq

12:47 pm on 7 December 2004

An American Samoa soldier has died in the fighting in Iraq.

He was Staff Sgt. Salamo J. Tuialu'ulu'u -- who recorded his home town as Pago Pago.

He died over the weekend in in Mosul when the military vehicle he was in was fired on by insurgents.

He is the third soldier with American Samoa listed as their home to have died in the Iraq war.