Violent clashes had been raging between the Iraqi Resistance and US troops backed up by their Iraqi puppet army allies in the city of al-Hadithah, 236km northwest of Baghdad since dawn on Wednesday.Fighting was the most violent since US troops entered the city, had broken out in five different neighborhoods in al-Hadithah, despite the fact that the city remains under US curfew orders. Large numbers Mujahideen fighters could be seen going around the various neighborhoods heavily armed with light and medium weaponry. More than 10 US troops had been killed and five more of them wounded. In addition two Iraqi puppet soldiers were killed by Iraqi Mujahideen sharpshooters in the middle of the city after the fighting broke out.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol in a village near al-Khalidiyah, about 85km west of Baghdad on Wednesday morning. The bomb, which had been planted in a used car tire and placed by the side of the road to as-Saddah blew up by a US patrol vehicle as it drove past. The explosion completely destroyed the vehicle, killing two US soldiers and wounding others.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol in al-Mahmudiyah, about 30km south of Baghdad, on Wednesday evening. The bomb that had been planted under a man-hole cover on the main road in the Middle Palace area of al-Mahmudiyah went off under a passing American patrol. The blast disabled a Humvee and killed one US soldier and severely wounded three more of them.
An Iraqi Mujahideen bomb exploded by a US patrol based in the city of al-Qa'im in western Iraq near the Syrian border on Tuesday. The blast totally destroyed an American Humvee, killing at least one US soldier and wounding two more of them.
One American soldier and three Iraqi puppet troops were killed in two Resistance attacks in the locked-down city of al-Hadithah, about 236km northwest of Baghdad. An Iraqi Mujahideen marksman shot and killed a US soldier in al-Hadithah on Monday afternoon, the Al Basrah reported.
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