Car Bombs in Ramadi Kill 4, Spark Clashes

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20041005/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs exploded in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Tuesday, killing four Iraqis and prompting clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen. In the northern city of Mosul, another vehicle bomb went off, wounding four Americans.


U.S. warplanes pounded the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City overnight after an American patrol came under gunfire, the military said Tuesday. Hospital officials said at least one Iraqi was killed in the violence in the district, a stronghold for Shiite militiamen.


Near Baghdad, one soldier from the U.S. Army's 13th Corps Support Command was killed Monday night and two were injured when their convoy hit a homemade bomb, the military said. As of Monday, 1,058 members of the U.S. military have died since the start of the war in March 2003, according to the Pentagon (news - web sites).


Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, is one of the Sunni Triangle cities where U.S. and Iraqi commanders are considering launching a new push to clear out insurgents ahead of key January elections.



........long article worth reading includes the "progress" all over Iraq.

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. "At Least We Got Poland"

asshat :eyes: