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Caucasus Corpse Count
Federal troops and police continued to suffer casualties in Chechnya, losing four men in rebel raids and land mine explosions over the past day, an official with the region's Kremlin-backed government said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, American troops continue to get the job done in Iraq with far fewer casualties. Vlad's eventually going to wonder why this is so ...
Two of the soldiers died and another serviceman was wounded when a military vehicle hit a rebel land mine near the town of Vedeno late Tuesday, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Also Tuesday, a federal serviceman and an officer in the Chechen government's police force were killed in a clash with rebels near Vedeno, the official said.

Two Chechen policemen were wounded and two rebels were killed in the skirmish, he added.

Two soldiers were wounded in the explosion of a rebel-laid land mine they were trying to defuse Tuesday near the federal military base of Khankala, located on the outskirts of Grozny.

Federal artillery on Wednesday shelled suspected rebel bases in Chechnya's southern mountains, a routine barrage that has failed to weaken resistance.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-08-05
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