aljazeera: US casualties in Iraq attack

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C88C489B-14BB-46CD-BEF2-211EFB17E282.htm

Friday 04 February 2005, 21:18 Makka Time, 18:18 GMT

The US combat patrol was attacked near Baiji

One US soldier has been killed and seven wounded in a roadside bombing near the key northern Iraqi oil refinery town of Baiji, the US military said.
One Task Force Danger soldier was killed and seven wounded in an improvised explosive device attack on a US combat patrol near Baiji, 200km north of Baghdad, said a statement on Friday.

No further details were immediately available.
The latest figures bring to 1446 the number of US soldiers killed since the US invasion in March 2003.

Meanwhile, a purported Iraqi group - the Army of Ansar al-Sunna - said on Friday it had killed 29 Iraqis and taken seven prisoners when it ambushed a 50-strong Iraqi police convoy this week, an internet statement said.

"The lions of God yesterday set a trap for a National Guard convoy at Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad ... after a fierce battle the mujahidin killed 29 people, burned four trucks soldiers were riding in, and took seven prisoners," the group said in a statement dated Friday, posted on its website.

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1. Iraq Coalition Casualties website link here for fast info.

http://icasualties.org/oif/