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Eight U.S. Marines killed in Iraq
Nine others wounded; U.S. launches new assaults in Falluja
Saturday, October 30, 2004 Posted: 1:01 PM EDT (1701 GMT)
Marines burn their waste Saturday as they leave a temporary base for a mission outside Falluja, Iraq.
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FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- Eight U.S. Marines were killed and nine wounded Saturday in al Anbar province west of Baghdad, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said.
The casualties came amid heavy air and artillery assaults in the province, where the restive city of Falluja is located.
A Marines spokesman said those casualties were outside Falluja in a single incident. No further details were immediately available.
The military has been trying to crack down on insurgent strongholds in the area.
U.S. forces launched fresh assaults in Falluja on Saturday, striking targets from the air and battling insurgents on the ground.
Marines operating around the outskirts of southeastern Falluja were engaged with mortars from insurgent forces within the city in the early afternoon, a Marines spokesman said.
The Marines responded with the longest barrage of artillery fire on insurgent positions in weeks, the spokesman said.
Marines later dropped air ordnance on an insurgent position in southern Falluja to support a group of Marines engaged on the ground, the spokesman said. The aircraft also used machine-gun fire against the insurgents, the spokesman said.
No Marines were wounded in those incidents in Falluja, the spokesman said.
Saturday's battles followed overnight airstrikes on targets in eastern and northern sections of Falluja that killed five Iraqis, according to hospital sources.
Among Friday's targets were two insurgent weapons caches in northern Falluja, which the military hit with two 500-pound bombs, officials said.
The stockpiles were observed for two days before the airstrikes, officials said.
Strikes also were launched on the eastern part of the city Friday, in the al-Sinai and al-Askari districts, according to CNN personnel in the area. The Marine spokesman had no information on the strikes in eastern Falluja.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials said Friday that Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have left the "Sunni Triangle" city.
The assessment came amid warnings of a major U.S.-led offensive to "smash" the al-Zarqawi network and other militants thought to be entrenched in the town.
Maj. Jim West, a Marine intelligence officer, and Gen. Dennis Hejlik, deputy commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, analyzed the political and military environment of the volatile city in a briefing Friday.
For weeks, U.S. warplanes have been bombing targets in the city linked to al-Zarqawi. At the same time, efforts to negotiate a peace have sputtered.
On Thursday, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced a new effort to negotiate peace, with a team from the country's National Council appointed to talk with Falluja leaders, who have been asked to hand over militants.
"If we get the order, we will go in until it's done," Hejlik said. "It's going to be decisive, and we're going to whack them."
He did not provide the number of troops that would be involved in a possible assault, but he said, "It will be enough to get the job done."
West said al-Zarqawi, who has a $25 million bounty on his head, may have chosen not to make a last stand in the city.
Other developments
A car bomb killed at least seven people and wounded 19 in an attack on the Baghdad offices of the Arabic-language television station Al-Arabiya on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. A militant group calling itself the "1920 Brigades" claimed responsibility for the attack, denouncing Al-Arabiya as "Americanized spies speaking in Arabic tongue," the AP said.
Witnesses said Iraqi forces fired randomly and threw hand grenades, hitting three minibuses and three vans, after a U.S. convoy came under attack near Haswa, a town about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of the Iraqi capital, the AP reported. A hospital official said at least 14 people were killed and 10 others wounded, according to the AP.
The family of a Japanese hostage in Iraq has new hope that Shosei Koda is still alive after Japanese officials announced a body initially thought to be the captive's was not his. Koda was abducted Tuesday, and his captors threatened to behead him unless Japan agreed to withdraw its troops from Iraq within 48 hours. (Full story)
A British soldier from the Black Watch battle group redeployed from the southern city of Basra to an area outside Baghdad died of injuries Friday in a noncombat vehicle accident, a British army spokesman said. About 850 soldiers from the Black Watch regiment have redeployed to an area 15 miles outside of Baghdad to free up U.S. troops there for operations against militants.
Suspected insurgents assassinated an assistant governor of Diyala, a province north of Baghdad, on Friday. Aqil Hamed al-Adeli was killed when five men opened fire in a real estate office. "It took us by surprise that he was traveling without his security detail," said Maj. Gen. Walid al-Azzawi, the local police chief.
An Iraqi civilian died and two U.S. soldiers and three Iraqis were injured Friday when a car bomb detonated in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said. Another car bomb targeting a convoy in Mosul wounded three U.S. soldiers.
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