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Joint US-Iraqi operation kills soldier in Nassiriya
Thi-Qar / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi soldier has been killed and another soldier was seriously injured in a joint US-Iraqi security operation in al-Fudheiliya township, 15 km to the east of Nassiriya city, the center of southern Iraq's Thi-Qar Province on Monday, a security source reported.

"An American force, supported by a force of Iraq's 10th Army Division's 38th Brigade, had carried out early today (Monday) a joint security operation in the said township, detaining 4 suspected persons, one of them carrying American Nationality,
Was his name Ed Smith, by any chance?
killing an Iraqi soldier and seriously wounding another soldier, in a clash during the detention operation," the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Posted by: Steve White 2011-09-27
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