- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A U.S. soldier
and a suicide bomber were killed Tuesday in separate incidents, according
to military spokesmen.
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- The American, who was not immediately identified, was
killed by a roadside bomb that detonated as U.S. troops were on patrol
Tuesday morning near Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad, the U.S. military
reported. The explosion also wounded one soldier.
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- U.S. officials also said one American soldier died and
another was injured when a roadside bomb caused their vehicle to veer off
a road Monday near al-Asad airbase, about 11 miles northwest of Fallujah
in western Iraq. The vehicle was part of a convoy of troops with the 13th
Corps Support Command.
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- The two deaths raised to 403 the number of U.S. troops
killed in action since the start of the Iraq war.
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- In the town of Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad,
the suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives in front of the house
of the provincial police chief. Six Iraqis, including the police chief's
bodyguard, were injured and several buildings were damaged.
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- Iraqi police are investigating the attack, according
to Maj. Slawomir Walenczykowski, a Polish army spokesman with the multinational
military division that controls the area around Hillah.
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- In the southern city of Najaf, jobless demonstrators
threw stones at a building housing the offices of the provincial governor,
then clashed with Spanish troops sent to restore order. Two people were
injured, and Iraqi police detained 32 others.
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- According to Army Col. Jill Morgenthaler, a U.S. military
spokeswoman, the Spanish cavalry patrol was dispatched at the governor's
request. When the troops arrived, more stones were thrown. Soldiers fired
in the air and the crowd dispersed.
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- Residents in Najaf said the demonstration was on behalf
of unemployed people who were either frustrated with delays in processing
applications for police jobs or were seeking asking the governor's help
in finding work.
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- Jaafar Kashkool, a doctor at the Sadr Hospital in Najaf,
said that an 18-year-old demonstrator, Alaa Muhammad Alwan, was shot in
the left leg and was in stable condition. It was not clear who shot him.
Witnesses also said five Iraqi police officers trying to control the protest
were injured.
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