An Iraqi Mujahideen marksman shot and killed a US soldier in the city of al-Hadithah, about 220km west of Baghdad on Friday morning, the Al Basrah reported.
Iraqi Mujahideen ambushed a US foot patrol in the Suq Maryam area of central Samarra' in the Salah ad-Din Province on Friday morning. The attack sparked a 15-minute firefight that left three US troops dead and four more of them wounded. One of the Mujahideen was also killed.
Iraqi Mujahideen forces blasted the British base in the Shatt al-'Arab region in the al-Basrah Province with an intense rocket barrage. During the night of Thursday-Friday the Resistance blasted two British
positions.
Meanwhile, the US army command in occupied Iraq announced that another US soldier, who was injured on Friday during clashes in al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, succumbed to his wounds on Saturday.
During Friday's clashes, in addition to 5 US soldiers, one British occupation soldier was also killed, the IRIB reported.
KC