BAGHDAD (AP) -- The U.S. military says two American servicemen were killed Tuesday when a gunman in an Iraqi army uniform opened fire while they were distributing humanitarian aid in northern Iraq.
It was the third such shooting in the Mosul area in less than a year, purportedly involving Iraqi soldiers.
And it's raising concerns about infiltration of the Iraqi security forces in one of the most dangerous areas in Iraq.
The shooting, near the Syrian border, came on the eve of a parliament vote on a pact that would allow American troops to remain in Iraq three more years.
Iraq's government says its police and army are not ready to maintain security on their own.
The military says the attack killed a Marine and an Army soldier on a transition team working with the Iraqis and appears to have been unprovoked.
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