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Article: Assailants ambush British convoy near Iraqi capitalU.S. soldiers clash with Shiite gunmen in Najaf
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 31, 2004
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Assailants ambushed a convoy of Britons on a
northern Baghdad highway on Sunday, killing one Iraqi security guard
and a bystander, officials and witnesses said. U.S. soldiers came
under fire in a Shiite holy city as an agreement to halt fighting
there appeared to be unraveling.
Two American soldiers were wounded in the clashes around the holy
city, Najaf, the military said. Fighting erupted Sunday night in
Najaf's twin city Kufa, and Shiite militiamen accused the Americans
of firing near the main mosque, damaging its outer wall.
In a report from Kufa, CNN, which has a reporter embedded with 1st
Armored Division troops there, said a "major firefight" broke out
late Sunday ...