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US soldiers killed in Iraq
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Sunday 28 November 2004 7:38 PM GMT

Two US marines have been killed in action south of Baghdad, bringing to
seven the total number killed in Iraq over the past three days,
according to US authorities.
Three US servicemen were killed on Sunday in clashes in al-Anbar
province of western Iraq. Two others were killed on Friday, he said.
The US military could not immediately release details on the
circumstances of their death.
Elsewhere on Sunday, five Polish soldiers were injured in an accident
which was unrelated to any attack, a Polish military spokesman said.
The five soldiers received medical treatment and returned to their
duties, said Colonel Zdzislaw Gnatowski.

Al-Zarqawi claim
Meanwhile, a website has carried a statement in which the al-Qaida
linked group of Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility
for killing 17 national guardsmen in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
The statement, which could not be independently verified, said the
"lions of the Ibn Khattab Brigade" launched a rocket attack on a US army
patrol backed by members of the Iraqi National Guard on Thursday.
A US soldier was killed and five wounded, said the al-Qaida Group of
Jihad in the Country of Two Rivers, led by Iraq's most wanted man. It
added that seven national guardsmen were killed in a separate attack on
the same day.
On Friday, the Ibn Khattab Brigade seized and killed three more members
of the national guard, while another seven guardsmen were killed on
their way to work at a camp northwest of Mosul, according to the statement.

More bodies
The US military said 17 more bodies were found on Saturday in Mosul,
bringing to almost 60 the number of men executed and dumped on the
streets of Mosul in the past 10 days. It did not report any US casualties.
In the south of the country, a group of unidentified assailants blew up
an oil pipeline which transports crude oil from al-Zawahiriya district
to the south of Basra town.
The pipeline transporting oil from Zubair-1 pumping station to  the Gulf
shore across al-Faw island was set on fire.
Firefighters and Iraqi national guards rushed to the scene and managed
to extinguish the fire.
Reuters
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