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US soldiers wounded in attack west of Baghdad
Khaleej Times, (AFP)
29 August 2003
RAMADI, Iraq - An undetermined number of US soldiers were wounded on Friday when a bomb went off as they drove through the flashpoint town of Ramadi, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad, witnesses said.
“A bomb went off under two US vehicles driving by the Saddam Great Mosque in the center of Ramadi at around 7:00 am (0300 GMT), destroying one vehicle, damaging the other and injuring a number of soldiers,” Qusay Ismail Al Suwaidawi, a resident of the town, told AFP.
US troops called in reinforcements and two helicopters were seen hovering over the scene of the attack, he said.
The wounded soldiers were evacuated as troops cordoned off the site, Suwaidawi added.
Ramadi is a Sunni Muslim stronghold where US troops regularly come under attack by militants thought to include loyalists of Saddam Hussein’s ousted regime.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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