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| US Marines kill three insurgent thugs in Iraq |
| 2004-07-15 |
| US Marines clashed with insurgents hunkered down at a taxi stand yesterday in a city known as a stronghold of Saddam Hussein supporters, killing three of the attackers and wounding five others, hospital officials said. The Marines came under fire from the group of insurgents in Ramadi, the military said in a statement. The fighting left three Iraqis dead and five injured, local hospital official Saeed Ali said. Elsewhere, insurgents blew up three liquor stores in Baqouba, a city north of Baghdad, amid fears that Islamic militants may be trying to impose their strict interpretation of Islam on the city, witnesses said. The blasts killed a taxi driver who happened to be passing by, said Dr Nassir Jawad from Baqouba General Hospital. Also yesterday, saboteurs attacked a natural gas pipeline that runs from the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk to a power station, an official with the North Oil Company said.Attackers planted a bomb near the gas pipeline in the Safra area, about 90km west of Kirkuk. The attack is likely to affect power supplies in the northern region of Iraq, but it was not immediately clear by how much. Pipelines can’t fight back..real brave of the terrorists, most of which are not even Iraqis. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |