Seraphim
08-22-2003, 03:26 AM
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U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division troops are seen conducting a nighttime foot patrol in Samarra, Iraq early Thursday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 22 — Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday, bringing the number of American combat deaths to 179, 32 more than were killed during the first Gulf war.
ONE SOLDIER was killed in action on Thursday near the Iraqi town of al Hilla, 34 miles south of Baghdad, said Spc. Margo Doers. The second, also on Thursday, was from the 1st Armored Division based in Baghdad. Doers could not provide any further details of the deaths.
Sixty-five U.S. soldiers have been killed since President Bush declared an end to formal combat on May 1.
The latest deaths came after another U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad late on Wednesday night, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
The military also said a U.S. civilian working as an interpreter for the U.S. Army was killed Wednesday in an ambush in downtown Tikrit, Saddam’s hometown 120 miles north of Baghdad. Another interpreter, an Iraqi, was killed Tuesday near the town of Samarra, just south of Tikrit.
SEARCHING FOR SADDAM
Meanwhile, the hunt for Saddam Hussein continued with a raid early Thursday on a farmhouse in the northern town of Abbarah, where an informant told U.S. forces the ousted dictator was hiding.
The tip about Saddam’s whereabouts proved either false or late: Soldiers captured five men in the farmhouse, owned by a Saddam loyalist, but Saddam was not among them. The men were being questioned.
Elsewhere, U.S. forces captured a suspected senior member of Saddam’s Fedayeen militia who was carrying a shopping list for explosives materials near Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, a military official said Thursday.
The man, identified as Rashid Mohammed, believed to be trying to organize a 600-strong militia in the area and was also holding a list of ten Iraqi names that U.S. forces believe was an assassination list when soldiers stopped his car on a highway north of Baqouba and detained him along with two others, said Lt. Col. William Adamson from the 588th Engineering Battalions.
Mohammed was detained along with two men who were traveling with him, he added.
The Associated Press and ******* contributed to this report.
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U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division troops are seen conducting a nighttime foot patrol in Samarra, Iraq early Thursday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 22 — Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday, bringing the number of American combat deaths to 179, 32 more than were killed during the first Gulf war.
ONE SOLDIER was killed in action on Thursday near the Iraqi town of al Hilla, 34 miles south of Baghdad, said Spc. Margo Doers. The second, also on Thursday, was from the 1st Armored Division based in Baghdad. Doers could not provide any further details of the deaths.
Sixty-five U.S. soldiers have been killed since President Bush declared an end to formal combat on May 1.
The latest deaths came after another U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad late on Wednesday night, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
The military also said a U.S. civilian working as an interpreter for the U.S. Army was killed Wednesday in an ambush in downtown Tikrit, Saddam’s hometown 120 miles north of Baghdad. Another interpreter, an Iraqi, was killed Tuesday near the town of Samarra, just south of Tikrit.
SEARCHING FOR SADDAM
Meanwhile, the hunt for Saddam Hussein continued with a raid early Thursday on a farmhouse in the northern town of Abbarah, where an informant told U.S. forces the ousted dictator was hiding.
The tip about Saddam’s whereabouts proved either false or late: Soldiers captured five men in the farmhouse, owned by a Saddam loyalist, but Saddam was not among them. The men were being questioned.
Elsewhere, U.S. forces captured a suspected senior member of Saddam’s Fedayeen militia who was carrying a shopping list for explosives materials near Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, a military official said Thursday.
The man, identified as Rashid Mohammed, believed to be trying to organize a 600-strong militia in the area and was also holding a list of ten Iraqi names that U.S. forces believe was an assassination list when soldiers stopped his car on a highway north of Baqouba and detained him along with two others, said Lt. Col. William Adamson from the 588th Engineering Battalions.
Mohammed was detained along with two men who were traveling with him, he added.
The Associated Press and ******* contributed to this report.