- BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Insurgents
attacked a U.S. convoy carrying fuel west of Baghdad Friday, killing at
least nine people, witnesses said.
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- A Reuters photographer on the scene said he saw bodies
burning inside the vehicles, which were still on fire near Abu Ghraib.
He said the convoy included U.S. military vehicles and fuel tankers.
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- Huge clouds of black smoke hung over the area, visible
from several kilometers away. There was heavy fighting between U.S. troops
and guerrillas in Abu Ghraib Thursday.
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- Truckloads of people from the area have also tried to
head further west to help other insurgents battling U.S. forces in Falluja
and Ramadi.
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