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Article: 3 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attacks
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- September 21, 2003
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Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
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Three American soldiers were killed and 13 injured in a mortar attack
and a bombing in the volatile region of central Iraq, the U.S. military
reported Sunday. The deaths followed an assassination attempt against
a member of Iraq's Governing Council.
Two military police officers were killed in a mortar attack about
10 p.m. Saturday on a U.S. base near the Abu Ghraib prison on the
western outskirts of Baghdad. Thirteen MPs were injured in the attack.
No prisoners were injured.
Shortly before the Abu Ghraib shelling, a soldier from the 3rd Armored
Cavalry Regiment was killed when his Humvee was hit by a roadside
bomb near Ramadi, ...