- BAGHDAD (AFP) -- Eight US
soldiers were wounded overnight, four in an attack in the flashpoint town
of Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, and the others on a road north of the
capital, a military spokesman said.
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- "At 1.45pm local time (7.45pm yesterday AEST), four
soldiers were wounded in Fallujah when an improvised explosive device blew
up beneath the bridge and all were evacuated to a medical facility,"
the spokesman said.
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- A military convoy also came under fire on the road between
Kirkuk and Balad, north of Baghdad, leaving four people wounded, the spokesman
said.
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- "They were attacked by three to four men travelling
in a white Datsun truck," the spokesman said.
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- In Fallujah, witnesses said around 15 US military vehicles
were stationed in front of a former Iraqi army building, where the soldiers
were moving two rockets, when an explosion destroyed one of their Humvees.
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- The explosion was caused by an unspecified device, according
to Jamil Ahmed and Abbas Nasser.
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- Several US soldiers were wounded and helicopters arrived
to evacuate them, they said.
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- A helicopter fired to disperse the crowd who gathered
around the site of the explosion, the witnesses said.
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- Some 150 people reassembled once the US forces left and
chanted slogans in favour of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
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- Some brandished pieces of bloodstained uniforms, an AFP
correspondent witnessed.
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- The Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah is the scene
of frequent attacks on US troops which have been attributed to loyalists
of Saddam's deposed regime.
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