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4 U.S. Soldiers Killed, Iraqi Group Vows Resistance
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An American military vehicle destroyed in attack by Iraqi fighters
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BAGHDAD,
July 22 (IslamOnine.net & News Agencies) – Four U.S. soldiers
were reportedly killed and two others injured Tuesday, July 22, in two
separate attacks in northern and central Iraq, a day after an Iraqi
resistance group called for Jihad against the U.S.-led occupation,
threatening the occupation troops and their Iraqi collaborators with
relentless attacks.
One
U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded when their vehicle came
under attack by a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire in an
ambush on the road between Balad and Ramadi, 100 kilometers (60 miles)
west of Baghdad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted the U.S. Central
Command as saying.
The
soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were
evacuated to the 28th
Combat
Support
Hospital
, Centcom said.
Aljazeera
satellite channel further reported that three
U.S.
soldiers were killed and another wounded in al-Falah district in the
northern Iraqi city of
Mosul
on Tuesday.
The
channel correspondent said up to 50
U.S.
armored vehicles surrounded a house in the district, believing that
the two sons of the ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Udayi and
Qusai, were holing up there.
U.S.
troops arrested the house's owner, Sheikh Nawaaf Zidan, his wife and
19-year-old son as
U.S.
jet fighters reduced it to rubble.
The
occupation forces also cordoned off the district and did not allow
anyone in or out.
The
attacks take to 42 the number of
U.S.
troops killed in action since an end to major combat operations in
Iraq
was declared on May 1, and to 153 troops killed in combat during the
entire
Iraq
campaign, according to Aljazeera and an AFP accounts.
On
Monday, July 21, three
U.S.
soldiers were killed and troops stationed at Ibn Firnas airport, north
of
Baghdad
, came
under a five-hour mortar attack from a group of the Iraqi
resistance.
Resistance
Unabated
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"We
will kill the spies and those who deal with them ... We will kill any
soldier sent by an Arab or foreign country to our land," vowed Iraqi
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In
a related development, an Iraqi resistance group called Saraya
al-Jihad (Jihad Brigades) called for a guerrilla war against
U.S.
troops and for the killing of Iraqis who collaborate with the
occupiers.
"We
will kill the spies and traitors collaborating with the
Americans," said a statement read by five armed hooded men
sitting on the floor with a small portrait of Saddam on a wall behind
them.
In
a video aired by Aljazeera Monday, they urged Iraqis not to deal with
the "traitors," a reference to U.S.-appointed Iraqi
officials such as
members of the newly-unveiled Governing Council.
"We
ask our people: what are you doing about the killing of women,
children and elderly men? ... We will avenge them and we will make the
ground shake under the feet of those who killed them," said the
men, who took turns reading from a sheet.
"We
want to say that we will sacrifice ourselves for our religion and
country ... Liberate
Iraq
through guerrilla warfare," they averred.
"We
will kill the spies and those who deal with them ... We will kill any
soldier sent by an Arab or foreign country to our land," vowed
one of the speakers.
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