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1 Us Soldier Killed Guerrillas

Juan Cole 11/04/2004

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1 US Soldier Killed

Guerrillas employed a roadside bomb to kill a US soldier near Salman Pak on Wednesday, and wounded one other.

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat reports that guerrilas used a car bomb, which exploded on the road, killing or wounding 8 in the southeast corner of Bahgdad.

AP summarizes the two incidents Thursday morning:


‘ On Wednesday, a soldier was killed and another wounded in a roadside bombing 12 miles south of the capital. A suicide driver detonated his vehicle at a checkpoint near Baghdad airport, injuring nine Iraqis and forcing U.S. troops to close the main route into the city for hours. ‘

Reuters reports that the Supporters of the Sunnah terrorist group beheaded a high officer in the new Iraqi army, Husain Shunun, after capturing him in Mosul.

Meanwhile, US warplanes struck Fallujah again on Wednesday, after a number of very destructive bombing raids.

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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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