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![]() Sunday, May 02, 2004 news of the day from operation iraqi freedom... 11 Troops Die in Iraq; U.S. Hostage Safe Filed at 5:44 p.m. ET BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- In a daring escape, American hostage Thomas Hamill pried open the doors of the house where he was being held late Sunday morning and ran a half-mile to a military convoy that was passing by, officials and his wife said. Insurgents attacked U.S. forces across Iraq, killing 11 Americans. .... Meanwhile, 11 soldiers were killed in separate attacks, the military said, raising the U.S. death toll to 151 since a wave of violence began April 1. At least 753 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. Six U.S. service members were killed and another 30 were wounded in a mortar attack near the western city of Ramadi. .... Another U.S. soldier was killed and 10 were wounded in a bomb and small arms attack on a coalition base near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Overnight, Shiite militiamen attacked a U.S. convoy with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades near the southern city of Amarah, 180 miles south of Baghdad. Two soldiers were killed, the military said. Through the night and into Sunday morning, Iraqis set fire to the long line of abandoned vehicles, jumping on the hoods and beating them with sticks. An attack in northwest Baghdad killed two other soldiers and wounded two Iraqi security officers and another American, the military said. U.S. troops also exchanged gunfire Sunday near Najaf with militiamen loyal to radical Shiite preacher Muqtada al-Sadr, who is charged in the murder of a rival cleric last year. In the southern city of Basra, a mortar shell exploded late Sunday near the headquarters of the traffic police, killing one civilian, police Lt. Col. Ali Kadhim said. Minutes later, gunmen killed a policeman at a checkpoint, he said. It was unclear if the attacks were coordinated. the day that was.. southern culture on the skids "it's all over but the shoutin'" "it's all over. it's all over..." posted by downtown | 6:42 PM |
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![]() Cost of the War in Iraq
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