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Iraqi Insurgents Killed About 30 US Soldiers on Friday
From Jihad Unspun... a bomb that was planted by the side of the main road, known as ash-Shurtah Road, blew up as a joint patrol of Americans and Iraqi puppet troops was passing by. One US soldier was killed and two more Americans wounded. .... The US military occupation forces admitted on Friday that one American Marine died on Thursday of wounds received when an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded during combat operations in the area of Hit. .... An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a convoy of US military trucks loaded with provisions and supplies for American troops on the highway in the Khan Darri area in western Abu Ghurayb .... The explosion set one of the truck on fire, killing one soldier and wounding a second. ..... A detachment of Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a joint US-Iraqi puppet patrol in as-Sayyidiyah to the south of Baghdad .... Four US troops and six Iraqi puppet soldiers were killed and six Americans were wounded. ... An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US fuel truck convoy in the ar-Rashidiyah area just north of Baghdad .... The blast set one of the fuel trucks on fire, killing two American soldiers. .... Two Iraqi Resistance martyrdom fighters drove two car bombs into an American armored column in Tikrit on the main road linking Baghdad with the northern provinces .... The blasts destroyed two US armored vehicles and disabled a third, killing eight American troops and wounding three more. ... An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US armored column on the main road from Baghdad to the north in the city of al-Mushahadah .... a bomb that was planted by the side of the main road ... The explosion disabled one of the armored vehicles, killing one US soldier and seriously wounding four more. An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a US military column in al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad .... when a column of six American armored vehicles and two Humvees passed by. The witnesses said that the blast set one of the American armored vehicles on fire, killing its five-man crew. Iraqi Resistance forces carried out two consecutive attacks on a US military column at the entrance to the al-Islah az-Ziraâi neighborhood in northwestern Mosul .... an Iraqi Resistance bomb that was planted by the side of the main road at the eastern entrance to the neighborhood exploded by a passing column of six armored vehicles and four Humvees, disabling one of the armored vehicles. Then after the column had come to a halt following the bomb blast and were engaged in tending to the dead and wounded, Iraqi Resistance fighters fired eight mortar rounds into the American column, destroying one Humvee and setting an armored vehicle on fire. In all, eight US troops were killed or wounded. Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2005-07-26 |
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