130 total U.S. casualties here might be true, of which 12 are dead. That's about the right proportion.
It is also possible that there were 130 total dead including the Sunni Arab irregulars - 12 U.S. and 118 of them for 130 total. That is also about the right proportion.
But you will almost always be right in assuming that the newsies are wrong whenever they report on military matters. This is especially true concerning American military forces.
One really interesting thing (which I may try to write an article on sometime) is how hilariously wrong war reports even from respected newspapers were in WWII...sort of has been lost to history, but the newspapers are still there.
In the week after Midway, the "story" was how Army Air Corps B-17s had single-handedly wiped out the Japanese carrier fleet. A lot of BS about B-17s in the war... (aided greatly by the USAAF Heavy Bomber PR and propaganda machine)...a B-17 pilot previously had won a posthumous Medal of Honor for a "sinking" of a Japanese Battleship in the Phillipines that turned out to be a near-miss of a Japanese destroyer.