Topic: U.S. marine killed in western Iraq

Team Infidel

Media: Xinhua
Byline: n/a
Date: 15 September 2006


BAGHDAD -- An American marine was killed on Friday in the volatile Anbar
province as a result of "enemy action ", the U.S. military said in a
statement.

In a separate statement, the military said another soldier was killed late
on Thursday in a roadside bomb blast while conducting a foot patrol.

The U.S. military said earlier Friday that bombings and shootings killed
four American soldiers and wounded 25 in and around Baghdad on Thursday.

A suicide car bomber attacked U.S. troops at approximately 2:50 p.m. (1050
GMT) on the western outskirts of the city, leaving two soldiers killed and
25 others wounded, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Early on Thursday, another two U.S. soldiers were also killed in the
capital region. One soldier was killed when a roadside bomb hit his vehicle
in southern Baghdad, while the other died of wounds received from small
arms fire when his unit was attacked in southeastern Baghdad, according to a
U.S. statement.

Since the U.S.-led war in Iraq, broke out in March 2003, more than 2,670
U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, according to media count.

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