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Grenade Attack Kills Marine Near Baghdad
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - One U.S. Marine was killed and one wounded early Sunday in a grenade attack south of Baghdad, after one of the bloodiest weeks in the guerrilla war against U.S. forces since President Bush (news - web sites) declared major combat in Iraq (news - web sites) was over on May 1.
The military said the attack occurred at 2:35 a.m. in the region controlled
by the Marines south of the capital, and had no further information.
The death brought to 49 the number of U.S. forces killed in combat in Iraq
since May 1 when Bush said the major combat phase of the Iraq War had ended. So
far 163 U.S. soldiers have died in the war, 16 more than the number of those
killed in the 1991 Gulf War (news
- web
sites).
There had been hope the killings Tuesday of Odai and Qusai Hussein, two of
Saddam Hussein (news
- web
sites)'s sons and Nos. 2 and 3 on the U.S. most-wanted list, in the northern
city of Mosul might demoralize the resistance. Instead, their deaths appear to
have inspired a wave of revenge attacks.
Thirteen Americans died last week in what was believed to have been the
deadliest seven-day period in the guerrilla war since Bush's May 1 declaration.
Four U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday, three in a grenade attack outside a
children's hospital in Baqouba, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, and one in a bomb
and rocket-propelled grenade attack just west of the capital near the notorious
Abu Ghraib prison. The
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