Monday was another hot day in Iraq with four major car bombings and an multitude of resistance attacks throughout the country. Here are just some of the attacks that took place in brief.Three US troops were killed in Resistance car bombing north of Balad at about 6:30am local time Monday. ...
At 9:00am an Iraqi Resistance bomb struck a US patrol killing two US troops and destroying one Humvee on the Saddam International Airport road.
Iraqi Resistance forces killed a first lieutenant and a colonel in the so-called "Iraqi national guard" in an Iraqi Resistance ambush in al-'Amarah at about 12 noon local time Monday. Two US troops were killed and a troop carrier loaded with military equipment destroyed in an Iraqi Resistance attack in the Manaysir region between al-Ghazaliyah (west of Baghdad) and Abu Ghurayb (south of Baghdad) at 2:10pm Monday afternoon. ....
Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a US patrol in ad-Durah at 6:45pm with RPGs and C5Ks, killing four troops, according to local eyewitnesses, who added that the Resistance fighters seized 17 American machineguns in the attack.
Fierce battles were later reported at ad-Durah around 8:45pm that lasted for 25 minutes and left four US troops dead.
Two US troops were killed and three others wounded in al-Karakh in Baghdad at around 4pm local time Monday when American forces tried to break into Hayfa Street in the area with four Bradley armored vehicles. Their aim was to set up check points inside the defiant area, but they were thrown back by RPG7 and Iraqi sharpshooter fire. ....
A Resistance ambush destroyed one fuel tanker on the Army Canal road in Baghdad, killing one US soldier Monday evening. ...
•One Abrams tank was destroyed and its crew of five killed by an Iraqi Resistance bomb at 3:10pm Monday in Bahraz in the Ba'qubah area. ....
Four US troops were killed in an Iraqi Resistance ambush of a fuel and provisions convoy in al-Latifiyah south of Baghdad at 8:45pm Monday. Three trucks were destroyed, and fires blazed in the vehicles until 11:15pm. ...