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To: tejek who wrote (178135)	11/18/2003 12:13:30 AM
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Violence Claims 2 U.S. Soldiers, 3 Iraqis at Market Associated Press Tuesday, November 18, 2003; Page A16 TIKRIT, Iraq, Nov. 17 -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in separate incidents north of Baghdad, and an American patrol killed three people at the capital's gun market after apparently mistaking test-firing by customers as an attack, officials and witnesses said. The American soldiers were killed near the town of Balad, 45 miles northwest of Baghdad, the military said. One soldier died and two were wounded when insurgents engaged their patrol with small-arms fire at 7:30 a.m. The other soldier was killed about 20 minutes later when a convoy was struck by a roadside bomb near the town, the statement said. More than 400 U.S. service members have died since military operations began in Iraq, more than half of them since May 1, when President Bush declared major combat operations over. In Baghdad, a U.S. patrol opened fire at the gun market, said a witness and Iraqi police Maj. Ali Rykan. The three dead included an 11-year-old boy. Four other people were wounded, hospital and police officials said. The incident, along with a U.S. sweep for weapons in the same middle-class neighborhood overnight, provoked anger among Iraqis. Before dawn Monday, U.S. forces backed by tanks and mortars assaulted dozens of suspected guerrilla positions in Tikrit, former president Saddam Hussein's home town, officials said. U.S. forces carried out more than 38 attacks in Tikrit from Sunday night to early Monday, destroying 15 suspected safe houses, three training camps and 14 mortar firing points, said Lt. Col. William MacDonald, a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division. Six suspected Hussein loyalists were killed and 21 others were arrested, he said. The military also announced that soldiers in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, arrested Kazim Mohammed Faris, a suspected organizer of the Saddam's Fedayeen militia, which is responsible for some of the anti-U.S. violence. Meanwhile, the CIA said it could not authenticate a tape purportedly made by Hussein urging rebels to escalate attacks against the occupation. The audio message aired Monday on al-Arabiya television. washingtonpost.com