The eight had been listed as "Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown" since their convoy was ambushed on March 23.

US forces also recovered a ninth body believed to be a US soldier but it had yet to be identified, Pentagon sources said. The bodies were discovered April 2 at Nasiriyah hospital during Lynch's rescue.

Iraqi forces ambushed the 507th Maintenance Company, operating in support of the advancing 3rd Infantry Division, after it took a wrong turn near Nasiriyah, southern Iraq

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