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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (29358)	10/2/2003 1:33:28 AM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Meanwhile the Iraqi Blues continues. Two American soldiers, one of them a woman, died in separate incidents Wednesday, the military reported, while Iraqi protesters clashed with the police on the streets here. The woman who was killed was the fourth American woman to die in Iraq or Kuwait since the war began. She was killed in a bold daylight attack just outside a United States base in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, a military spokesman said. Her name was withheld, pending notification of her family. A roadside bomb exploded as her convoy passed only a few hundred yards from one of three major bases used by the Fourth Infantry Division in Tikrit, Master Sgt. Dave Johnson, a division spokesman, said. "It was immediately outside the base, in broad daylight." Three soldiers were seriously wounded in the attack, and the woman died as she was being flown to a nearby combat hospital, Sergeant Johnson said. In the other incident, one soldier was killed and another wounded when they were shot with a small-caliber handgun while on patrol in the Al Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, Reuters reported. Six soldiers have died in accidents and ambushes in the last two days, bringing to 315 the total number of troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait since the war began. Of those, 176 have died in the five months since President Bush declared major combat operations over on May 1. Another 1,703 soldiers have been wounded since the war began, said Maj. Mike Escudie, a spokesman for United States Central Command, which oversees troops in Iraq. from nytimes.com JMO lurqer