Reuters: U.S. Says 300 Fighters Killed in Najaf

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HMMM?

The media can produce a body count within hours when we're killing "insurgents," yet, they can't seem to come up with a body count on INNOCENT CIVILIANS after 1.5 years of slaughter. Why is that?


(Reuters) - U.S. Marines have killed an estimated 300 fighters loyal to a firebrand Iraqi Shi'ite cleric in fierce clashes around the holy city of Najaf in the past two days, a senior U.S. officer said Friday. A spokesman for radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr denied that many fighters had been killed. He said 36 militiamen had been killed in several Iraqi cities from clashes that have felled fears of a new rebellion of radical Shi'ites

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