Seraphim
07-27-2003, 05:18 AM
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Specialist Thomas Brown from Lufkinn, Texas belonging to Alfa Company, 1st Batallion, 22nd Infantry of the 4th Infantry Divison takes a break after participating in a pre-dawn raid on three farms in the northern city of Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites) on Sunday July 27, 2003. The U.S. Army said that they may have missed by 24 hours one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s top bodyguards and perhaps Saddam himself in the raid. About 25 men were briefly detained.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - One U.S. Marine was killed and one wounded early Sunday in a grenade attack south of Baghdad, after one of the bloodiest weeks in the guerrilla war against U.S. forces since President Bush (news - web sites) declared major combat in Iraq (news - web sites) was over on May 1.
The military said the attack occurred at 2:35 a.m. in the region controlled by the Marines south of the capital, and had no further information.
The death brought to 48 the number of U.S. forces killed in combat in Iraq since May 1 when Bush said the major combat phase of the Iraq War had ended. So far 163 U.S. soldiers have died in the war, 16 more than the number of those killed in the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites).
There had been hope the killings Tuesday of Odai and Qusai Hussein, two of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons and Nos. 2 and 3 on the U.S. most-wanted list, in the northern city of Mosul might demoralize the resistance. Instead, their deaths appear to have inspired a wave of revenge attacks.
Thirteen Americans died last week in what was believed to have been the deadliest seven-day period in the guerrilla war since Bush's May 1 declaration.
Four U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday, three in a grenade attack outside a children's hospital in Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, and one in a bomb and rocket-propelled grenade attack just west of the capital near the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
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Specialist Thomas Brown from Lufkinn, Texas belonging to Alfa Company, 1st Batallion, 22nd Infantry of the 4th Infantry Divison takes a break after participating in a pre-dawn raid on three farms in the northern city of Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites) on Sunday July 27, 2003. The U.S. Army said that they may have missed by 24 hours one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s top bodyguards and perhaps Saddam himself in the raid. About 25 men were briefly detained.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - One U.S. Marine was killed and one wounded early Sunday in a grenade attack south of Baghdad, after one of the bloodiest weeks in the guerrilla war against U.S. forces since President Bush (news - web sites) declared major combat in Iraq (news - web sites) was over on May 1.
The military said the attack occurred at 2:35 a.m. in the region controlled by the Marines south of the capital, and had no further information.
The death brought to 48 the number of U.S. forces killed in combat in Iraq since May 1 when Bush said the major combat phase of the Iraq War had ended. So far 163 U.S. soldiers have died in the war, 16 more than the number of those killed in the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites).
There had been hope the killings Tuesday of Odai and Qusai Hussein, two of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons and Nos. 2 and 3 on the U.S. most-wanted list, in the northern city of Mosul might demoralize the resistance. Instead, their deaths appear to have inspired a wave of revenge attacks.
Thirteen Americans died last week in what was believed to have been the deadliest seven-day period in the guerrilla war since Bush's May 1 declaration.
Four U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday, three in a grenade attack outside a children's hospital in Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, and one in a bomb and rocket-propelled grenade attack just west of the capital near the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.