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Fighting, firepower and fatalities throughout Iraq on Monday .... On Monday night US forces stormed into the College of Medicine in al-Anbar Province in Western Iraq and arrested several of the medical students. .... When the US troops were returning to their base with their captives, Resistance forces attacked them with RPG7 rockets and bombs, destroying a Humvee and reportedly killing three US troops as well as two of the captive medical students. A US armored vehicle with four American troops aboard was also destroyed. .... Resistance sharp shooters shot two US snipers in the city of al-Qa'im on Monday in separate attacks. .... In a separate attack in the same city, A Resistance sharp shooter picked off one American sniper posted in a guard tower outside the US base in the Customs area of al-Qa'im, a city on the Iraqi-Syrian border. .... Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked American troops in the al-Jihad neighborhood of Baghdad at about 6:45am Monday, destroying two Humvees and a Bradley armored vehicle and reportedly killing eight US troops and seriously wounding two more American soldiers. A Resistance bomb exploded on Airport Road in the Baghdad district of al-'Amiriyah at 8:30am Monday, destroying a Humvee and reportedly killing three US troops. ....
Resistance bombs exploded under US forces in as-Suwayrah, south of Baghdad at about 10am Monday, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and reportedly killing three US troops who were aboard it. A heavy Resistance bomb exploded in al-Ishaqi north of Baghdad at 10:15am Monday, destroying an Abrams tank and reportedly killing two US troops and wounding a third. A Resistance bomb exploded on the highway in the as-Sayyidiyah area at 10:30am Monday, destroying a Humvee and reportedly killing two US troops. Resistance fighters hurled hand grenades at US troops on Sahat at-Tala'i' [Vanguards' Square] in the al-Mushahadah neighborhood of Baghdad's al-Karakh district at 10:30am Monday, reportedly killing three US soldiers on foot and wounding seven other American infantrymen. .... Resistance fighters fired an RPG7 rocket a US military truck on the highway in the al-Ghazaliyah area, reportedly killing two US troops aboard it. Resistance forces planted a bomb under a US checkpoint in the at-Taji area, north of Baghdad. Witnesses in the area said that when the bomb exploded it destroyed a Humvee and reportedly killed seven US soldiers and seriously wounded nine others. ....