Thursday, January 10, 2008

Six U.S. troops die; WHO: 151,000 Iraqi civilians killed since 2003

Al Bawaba,



Posted: 10-01-2008 , 07:58 GMT


iraq resistanceSix American troops were killed on Wednesday when a house rigged with explosives blew up north of Baghdad during a new U.S.-Iraqi offensive targeting al Qaeda fighters in Iraq, the U.S. military said. According to Reuters, the military gave few details of the incident but said the six soldiers were killed by a "house-borne improvised explosive device" during operations on Wednesday in Diyala.

The three other soldiers were killed in Salahuddin province, also north of Baghdad, another target area of the new U.S.-led offensive against al Qaeda that was launched on Tuesday.

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