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To: steve harris who wrote (200426)	9/6/2004 8:05:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

Bomber kills seven US marines Sep 6 2004 A massive suicide car bomb blast on the outskirts of of the Iraqi city of Fallujah killed seven US marines in the deadliest attack on Americans since May. The attack nine miles north of the city -- a stronghold for Sunni insurgents -- destroyed two Humvees, witnesses said. Medical teams in helicopters swept into the dusty, barren site to ferry away the injured, and troops sealed off the surrounding area. In Baghdad, three US soldiers were wounded in a roadside bombing. The explosion was one of three separate attacks on coalition forces between 11 a.m. and noon local time. With Monday's deaths and those of two soldiers in a mortar barrage outside Baghdad on Sunday, 985 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defence Department. US forces have not patrolled inside Fallujah since April, when marines ended a three-week siege. The city has since fallen into the hands of insurgents who have used it as a base to manufacture car bombs and launch attacks on American and Iraqi government forces. Medical tests on a man being held in custody showed he is not former president Saddam Hussein's deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, ending conflicting claims about his purported arrest, the Interior Ministry said. The man is a relative of al-Douri, said spokesman Sabah Kadhim, and was wanted by authorities, but not an important member of Saddam's ousted regime. A Turkish driver taken hostage in Iraq was released by his captors today - 24 hours after the man's employers announced they would withdraw from the country in line with his captors' demands. In Baghdad, Iraqi Minister of State Qassim Dawoud said the trial of Saddam and other indicted officials from his regime would start "within a few weeks ... before the end of this year and before elections," which are planned for January. icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk