Marines start withdrawal today, 12 American soldiers killed

The American occupation forces in Baghdad and its suburbs were exposed in the past hours to strong strikes that resulted in killing 12 soldiers. The strongest of these operations was an attack by a booby trapped car in al-Mahmoudeyah to the south of Baghdad resulted in killing nine soldiers and wounding other 2.

Two other American soldiers were killed and another wounded in an attack by explosives that targeted one occupation vehicle in Baqouba to the north of Baghdad that resulted also in killing one Iraqi civilian. the American army also announced that one soldier was killed in an attack by a missile shelling to the east of Baghdad.

To the west of Baghdad, an attack by missile shelling resulted in burning one American truck. Several Iraqis gathered around the truck commended “long live” for the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader.

To the east of the capital Baghdad, one explosive went off inside a tunnel, meters from the UN complex which was targeted by last year’s attack.

Three Iraqis from one family were killed on Wednesday evening and other five injured as one shell fell at a house in the Chinese area of Beji district to the north of Baghdad…{{link http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/040430/2004043001.html MORE}}

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