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Iraqis celebrate attacks
19/10/2003 18:47 - (SA)
Fallujah - Two US soldiers were killed and one was wounded in an ambush north of Baghdad and insurgents attacked a convoy in this turbulent city west of the capital, setting off huge explosions in several vehicles.
Young Iraqis here cheered and danced with each explosion and motorists sounded their horns in an apparent celebration of the attack.
In a third incident, three apparent Iraqi attackers were also reported killed.
There were no reports of casualties in the Sunday morning attack against what appeared to be a US ammunition truck here in Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad in the "Sunni Triangle."
Witnesses said US troops came under subsequent attack with rocket-propelled grenades as they tried to approach the truck and withdrew.
US troops and Iraqi police kept journalists away from the scene, but it appeared that three American vehicles were ablaze.
There were conflicting reports whether the attack in the eastern end of the city was triggered by a roadside bomb or by rocket-propelled grenades.
"Shells were flying everywhere, like fireworks," said Khalil al-Qubaisi a nearby shopkeeper.
In the northern attack, an American mounted patrol was ambushed by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire late on Saturday evening outside the northern city of Kirkuk said major Josslyn Aberle, spokesperson the 4th Infantry Division.
The patrol from Task Force Ironhorse - a force that includes the 4th Divion - returned fire, but no additional enemy contact followed, Aberle said.
- AP
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