- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A
second U.S. marine has been killed in Iraq, CNN reported on Friday.
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- The Marine died at about 4 p.m. local time, the network
said.
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- On Thursday, in the first day of fighting, one U.S. Marine
was killed in action. Eight British and four U.S. soldiers died in a helicopter
crash in Kuwait.
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- U.S. Marines met unexpected resistance when they attacked
a key southern Iraqi port earlier on Friday.
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- Iraqi ministers have vowed to "incinerate"
the invaders and asserted that President Saddam Hussein had survived an
early missile strike on a leadership bunker.
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