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Iraqi resistance bombings target U.S. patrols
7/18/2005 11:00:00 AM GMT
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Iraqi anti-occupation forces launched a series of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces over the weekend, resulting in heavy losses to the American troops.
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Ramadi:
It was reported Saturday violent fighting erupted for nearly an hour in the middle of Ramadi between the Iraqi anti-occupation fighters and U.S. occupation troops.
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More than 20 Iraqi Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons, including RPG7 rocket-propelled grenades and BKC machine guns attacked the joint patrol, setting two Humvees on fire and killing five American troops. Four other US soldiers were also reported to have been wounded.
The Americans troops were forced to call in reinforcements from the U.S. base to the west of the city (al-Warrar), and more than four U.S. armored vehicles and five Humvees showed up on the battle scene.
Al-Khalidiyah:
A bomb exploded by a U.S. military truck convoy hauling fuel to American occupation troops on the main road in al-Khalidiyah west of Baghdad on Saturday afternoon.
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The witnesses said that the blast set one American truck on fire, killing one U.S. soldier.
Hit:
It’s also been reported that bomb exploded by a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood in the middle of Hit in western Iraq.
...joint patrol was passing. The explosion set one Humvee on fire, killing three U.S. troops and wounding another.
Al-Fallujah:
A bomb exploded by a U.S. patrol... early Saturday morning.
A bomb planted in the middle of an unpaved farm road blew up under one of the U.S. Humvees in an American patrol completely destroying it and killing its four-man crew.
Kirkuk:
An anti-occupation fighter drove an explosives-packed car into a U.S. military convoy in Kirkuk... directly into one American vehicle, setting it completely on fire and killing or wounding all aboard. The blast also damaged a second U.S. vehicle in the column.
The U.S. forces immediately closed off the area and spokesmen later released a statement that two American soldiers had been “wounded” in the attack and that the blast had damaged one of their vehicles.
Samarra:
A highly-explosive bomb blew up by a U.S. armored Humvee in Samarra’ on Saturday morning, destroying the vehicle and killing the five U.S. troops aboard it.
A source in the Iraqi government confirmed to a media service that five U.S. troops were killed when the vehicle was blown up.
Al-Mada’in:
An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded by a US armored column in the city of al-Mada’in, southeast of Baghdad Saturday afternoon.
Residents of the city told Mafkarat al-Islam that an explosives-laden car that was parked by the side of the main road at the northern entrance to al-Mada’in blew up when a column of six U.S. armored vehicles and two Humvees passed by at 6pm local time Saturday afternoon.
The blast destroyed one American armored vehicle and damaged one Humvee, killing five American troops and wounding three more.
Al-Khalis:
Iraqi anti-occupation forces attacked a joint U.S. and Iraqi forces camp in al-Khalis, northwest of Ba‘qubah.
According to witness accounts a number of fighters armed with light and medium weapons then attacked the base, killing three U.S. troops and five Iraqi soldiers and wounding three U.S. soldiers.
The U.S. forces encircled the area, preventing locals and journalists from approaching. Later, some 10 U.S. military vehicles showed up to remove the dead and wounded Americans and Iraqi troops from the scene.
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Wootan, Margot, Director, Center for Science in Public Interest, Nutrition Policy
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Miller, Patti, Director, Children Now, Media Affairs
Montgomery, Kathryn, Professor, American University, Communications
Fair, Leslie, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission
Kelly, Richard, Senior Attorney, Federal Trade Commission
Lascoutx, Elizabeth, Director, Federal Trade Commission, Children's Advertising Review
Hebebrand, Charlotte, Official, European Community Commission, Health & Consumer Protection
Snyder, Wallace, President and CEO, American Advertising Federation
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Wordin, John, Executive Director, Fitness Challenge Foundation
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Federal Trade Commission
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
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Parnes, Lydia B., Director, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
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Linn, Susan, Associate Director, Judge Baker Children's Center, Media Center
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Shifrin, Donald Lee, Chairman, American Academy of Pediatrics, Communications Committee
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