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Three More U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq Today |
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21 Jul 2003
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A U.S. Humvee destroyed by the Iraqi resistance
BAGHDAD, July 21 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) â€" Three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed Monday, July 21, in two separate incidents in Iraq, as U.S. troops stationed at Ibn Firnas airport, north of Baghdad, came under a five-hour mortar attack overnight from a group of the Iraqi resistance. |
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Earlier, a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator were killed in an attack in Baghdad Monday, July 21.
U.S. troops in the north of the capital came under attack, leaving one soldier and an Iraqi dead in what a military spokesman described as an improvised explosive attack together with small arms fire.
"One armored division soldier was killed along with an Iraqi interpreter," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Specialist Brian Sharkey said.
A U.S. army officer at the scene, Lieutenant Colonel John Kem, said that three people had also been wounded in the attack. He did not specify if they were U.S. soldiers or Iraqis. The seriousness of their injuries was not known.
Reuters news agency further reported that a U.S. Humvee was destroyed in a missile attack earlier in the day, noting that two U.S. soldiers were killed.
On Sunday night, July 20, U.S. troops stationed at Ibn Firnas airport, north of Baghdad, came under a five-hour mortar attack from a group of the Iraqi resistance, witnesses said Monday.
The troops exchanged fire during the 10 pm to 3 am (1800 to 2300 GMT Sunday) attack with the help of tracer bullets, witness Ziad Ali Mohammed told AFP, adding that there were no victims in the overnight clashes.
Ibn Firnas airport is located five kilometres (three miles) north of Baquba, which is 60 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
U.S. army tanks and armored vehicles surrounded the small village of Hadif, not far from the airport, on Monday morning, and the U.S.-led troops carried out house searches, Mohammed said.
A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad neither confirmed nor denied the information.
Also on Sunday night, July 20, a U.S. military convoy came under fire in the western town of Ramadi, witnesses contacted from Fallujah said, adding that the Americans returned fire.
There were no immediate indications of whether there were any casualties as
A U.S. military spokesman claimed to have no knowledge of the incident.
Fallujah is halfway between Baghdad and Ramadi, which is 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the capital.
U.S. troops withdrew from Fallujah on July 11 after mounting and unflinching resistance.
On Sunday, two U.S. soldiers were killed and a third wounded in an ambush in northern Iraq
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