3 Us Soldiers Killed 4 Wounded Friday

Juan Cole 10/25/2003

3 US Soldiers Killed, 4 wounded Friday

Guerrillas near Samarra’ about an hour’s drive north of Baghdad fired mortars at the US base there Friday, killing two US soldiers and wounding four. A guerrilla shot a US soldier guarding a grain silo in the north near Mosul.

Also at Mosul, guerrillas fired grenades at a police station, killing two children and woudning three adults

Guerrillas fired rockets into a crowded market in a suburb of Baghdad, killing one Iraqi civilian and wounding six others.

On Thursday, guerrillas near Baqubah fired a mortar at Camp War Horse, wounding 13 US soldiers.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page