- BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- A suicide
car bomber killed two U.S. Marines near their base outside the besieged
Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a
news conference in Baghdad.
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- "There was a car bomb in the vicinity of Camp Falluja...
initial reports indicate two U.S. Marines were killed and six were wounded
when a patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber," Kimmitt told a news
conference in Baghdad.
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- Eight U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded by an
apparent suicide car bomber near Baghdad on Thursday. Such devices have
been more commonly used against Iraqi police and civilian targets but had
rarely struck U.S. patrols until now.
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- "Our vehicle was driving at around 10:30 a.m. (0630
GMT) looking for IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) and suddenly I heard
a loud explosion," Private Rany Williamson told reporters at the clinic
at Camp Falluja, the headquarters of the Marines.
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- "I saw black around me and I fainted for two or
three seconds. When I woke up I felt pain in my hands and legs. I was later
told that it was a suicide car bomb."
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- He said the attack occurred five minutes after they had
left the base.
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- Marines have been battling insurgents in Falluja, west
of Baghdad, for a month, responding to rocket and machinegun fire with
mortars and air strikes.
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- The latest deaths take to at least 127 the number of
U.S. service personnel killed in action in Iraq in April alone, by far
the bloodiest month since the U.S. invasion last March.
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- In all, some 537 Americans have died in combat in Iraq,
428 of them since President Bush declared that "major combat operations"
were over on May 1 last year.
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