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Sparrowhawk
10-30-04, 09:38 AM
Breaking news...

Eight Marines have been killed in the latest fighting in Iraq and no further information has been released as of this moment.

Nothing on the news yet...

don't know how or with what unit they were with.

Semper FI
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Sparrowhawk
10-30-04, 09:46 AM
8 U.S. Marines killed west of Baghdad
9 more injured as troops prepare for major Fallujah offensive
Jim Macmillan / AP

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/041029/041029_ramadi2_hmed_6a.hmedium.jpg U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment return fire on enemy positions after insurgents launched an attack with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in Ramadi, Iraq, on Friday.


MSNBC News Services
Updated: 8:50 a.m. ET Oct. 30, 2004NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Eight U.S. Marines were killed and nine others wounded in action Saturday in Anbar province west of Baghdad, the U.S. military announced.

The statement gave no details of how they were killed or injured and did not say where the engagement took place, citing security.

They were assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

Anbar province includes Fallujah, where the U.S. military is gearing up for a major offensive, as well as Ramadi and Qaim along the Syrian border.

Ahead of the projected assault, U.S. forces launched airstrikes against suspected militant bases in Fallujah earlier on Saturday and carried out probing attacks on the city’s outskirts.

U.S. planners believe many of Fallujah’s 300,000 residents have already fled the city, where militants last spring ambushed and killed four American contractors, mutilated their bodies and hung them from a bridge.

U.S. and Iraqi authorities want to curb the increasingly violent Sunni Muslim insurgency in order to hold nationwide elections by Jan. 31. Up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam Hussein loyalists and common criminals are hunkered down in Fallujah, U.S. officers said Friday.


****clips from some news accounts say that it was a suicide bomber that attacked a Marine Convoy?

thedrifter
10-30-04, 09:48 AM
Sad....

Rest In Peace


Ellie