Reply #26: Well Isn't That Strange. Yahoo sez no combat deaths

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in 2 whole days! Guess that means we're "winning"?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20030803/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_1379

"U.S Goes Two Days With No Combat Deaths
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By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - For a second straight day, the U.S. military reported no fatal attacks Sunday on American soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites). In a series of raids, troops detained two dozen people they said were participating in the violent resistance to the U.S. occupation, including a "targeted leader."


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The U.S. Central Command said Sunday's raids by the 3rd Armored Cavalry in the so-called "Sunni Triangle" west and north of the capital netted "24 regime loyalists, including a targeted leader." It provided no details on the identities of the captives.


An Iraqi contract worker for the U.N. Development Program suffered minor injuries when his car hit a land mine on the road from Baghdad International Airport to the city center.


The explosion, which set the car ablaze, came shortly after the driver passed a convoy of three U.S. Humvees traveling the same road, which has been the scene of many recent attacks on American soldiers.


The American occupation authority also reported settling 1,168 claims totaling $262,263 brought by Iraqis for deaths, injuries or property damage by American forces.


Representatives of the U.S. Judge Advocate General's office in the Iraqi capital said it had received more than 2,500 claims for compensation and had dealt with nearly 1,500, rejecting about 20 percent as having no foundation.


Violence against U.S. soldiers spiked after the July 22 raid in which Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s sons, Odai and Qusai, a bodyguard and a 14-year-old grandson were killed by American forces in a gun battle at a villa in Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad.


The three Saddam relatives were buried Saturday in a village just outside Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.


Since President Bush (news - web sites) declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1, 52 U.S. soldiers have been killed in guerrilla attacks, bringing combat deaths in the war to 167, 20 more than in the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). "