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3 Us Troops Killed 9 Iraqis 1 Jordanian

Juan Cole 03/26/2004

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3 US Troops Killed, 9 Iraqis, 1 Jordanian Killed

al-Hayat: It was announced on Thursday in Baghdad that three American troops and nine Iraqis were killed, along with a Jordanian driver, in separate attacks. In Kirkuk, a fire broke out in an oil well after the explosion of a bomb.

There was a two-hour-long firefight between Marines and guerrillas in Ramadi Wednesday night/ Thursday morning, which left 6 Iraqis dead.

The Washington Post explains:

‘ On Thursday, a roadside bomb killed a soldier with the 1st Infantry Division and wounded two others around 8:25 a.m. near Baqubah, 30 miles northeast of the capital . . .. In the afternoon, insurgents attacked a military convoy near Fallujah using a roadside bomb, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and guns. One Marine was killed and two were wounded in the attack at 3:48 p.m. . In addition, at around 2 p.m. Wednesday, insurgents attacked a military convoy north of Taji, a northern suburb of Baghdad. One soldier was killed and three were wounded. ‘

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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