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Resistance intensifies attacks on occupying forces
BAGHDAD, December 25.—A U.S.
soldier was killed and two were injured on Monday
when a bomb exploded as they were patrolling in a
district in the south of the Iraqi capital,
according to a Pentagon bulletin.
At the same time, a Marine
infantryman and a soldier, wounded by enemy gunfire
when they were operating in Al Anbar province
(western Iraq), died on Sunday, the communiqué adds,
without any details, as AFP reports.
These deaths brought the number
of U.S. soldiers to have died in Iraq since the
invasion of that country in March 2003 to 2,972,
according to Defense Department figures. The 22,057
wounded in combat and the 24,823 sick or
accidentally injured in the same period brings
non-fatal U.S. casualties to more than 46,880.
On the other hand, PL reports
that three explosive attacks this Monday left 15
dead and close to three dozen wounded, according to
official reports.
Meanwhile, AFP reports – without
any explanation – that British troops totally
destroyed the headquarters of a special section of
the Iraqi police in Basora, the “serious crimes
unit,” while the Iraqi authorities condemned the
arrest by the U.S. army of two Iranian officials
invited to Baghdad by the government.
While that was taking place, it
was announced that Democratic Senator Christopher
Dodd, an aspiring presidential candidate for his
party in the United States, has called for the
withdrawal of the U.S. troops stationed in Iraq,
because the U.S. war strategy there lacks any
meaning, according to today’s edition of an Iowa
newspaper.
Translated by Granma
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