Posted on 10/31/2003 9:53:15 AM PST by Brian S
Fri October 31, 2003 11:07 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division was killed in a bomb attack Friday near the Iraqi town of Khaldiya in the hostile "Sunni triangle" area west of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokeswoman said.
The attack brought to 118 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action since Washington declared major combat in Iraq over on May 1. During the war in Iraq in March and April, 114 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat, according to Pentagon figures.
The spokeswoman said a 1st Armored Division patrol was also attacked with grenades Friday morning in a market in Abu Ghraib, on the western outskirts of Baghdad. She said two soldiers were wounded, and the attack sparked fighting and demonstrations in the area which lasted for much of the day.
She had no information on reports that some Iraqi civilians had been killed during the unrest.
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