How Russell died

Killed in a suicide car bombing. An apparently pregnant woman stepped out of a car and ran screaming toward U.S. soldiers at the Hadithah Dam checkpoint. The car then exploded, killing three soldiers, the woman and the driver, also a woman. [source: Faces of the Fallen]
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