Confrontations continue in Iraq
Iraq, Military, 8/4/2005

Th US army on Wednesday admitted the death of 14 marines in an attack near Haditha city, in west Iraq.

It added that one translator, accompanying the American soldiers, was also killed in the attack which also resulted in injuring another. This came one day after the killing of seven American soldiers in the same area.

For its part, the American embassy in Baghdad said that the body of the kidnapped American journalist Steven Vincent was found killed by a roadside in al-Basra governorate to the south of Iraq.

Meantime, an American armored vehicle was damaged in al-Wahda quarters, southeast of Baghdad, while the American base in the city was attacked by mortars.

In another development, one Iraqi soldier was killed and other three injured in Balad area north of Baghdad when a suicide bomber detonated himself while riding a tractor against a joint vehicle for the American and Iraqi forces.

Sources in the Iraqi police said that five Iraqi soldiers were killed and other 6 injured when a suicide bomber wearing a military uniform detonated himself amid a group of soldiers north of Baghdad. In Samera, two Iraqi police men were killed from the the fire of armed men in the center of the city.

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