GIs Kill 2 North of Mosul After Attack

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U.S. forces were attacked twice before dawn near Tal Afar, about 30 miles west of Mosul, said Army Capt. Angela Bowman. Soldiers returned fire during both assaults, killing two of the attackers, she said. No U.S. casualties were reported.

Provincial health chief Rabie Yasin al-Khalil said 32 people were injured in the clashes.

The attack comes a day after Shiite militants and U.S. forces battled throughout the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 100 others.


U.S. warplanes and tanks later bombarded targets in Sunni stronghold of Fallujah, and U.S. forces exchanged gunfire with insurgents along the city's eastern outskirts and the main highway running to neighboring Jordan, witnesses said. The fighting left at least 14 people injured, hospital officials said.

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1. Civilians wounded in Mosul clashes: Al-J

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Civilians wounded in Mosul clashes


Sunday 29 August 2004, 16:53 Makka Time, 13:53 GMT


Thirty-five civilians were wounded in the crossfire of a fierce gun battle between Iraqi resistance fighters and US occupation soldiers in northern Iraq, according to police on the scene.


The US military said it killed two of the Iraqi fighters in the clashes which took place early on Sunday around Tal Afar near the city of Mosul.

There were no American casualties, the military said.

A doctor at Tal Afar hospital said the majority of the wounded were women and children, many hit by shrapnel.

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2. One of the Many Wounded.....

An Iraqi Kurdish woman lies with injuries in a hospital following clashes August 29, 2004 around Tal Afar, near the northern city of Mosul. Insurgents armed with rocket propelled grenades fought fierce clashes with U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq (news - web sites) Sunday that wounded more than 30 Iraqi civilians caught in the crossfire, police and U.S. forces said. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eld