IRAQ: BOMB KILLS 14 U.S. MARINES IN HADITHA.

Record ID: 358945

  • Title: IRAQ: BOMB KILLS 14 U.S. MARINES IN HADITHA.
  • Date: 4th August 2005
  • Summary: (BN13) HADITHA, IRAQ (AUG. 3, 2005) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) 1. GV TRACK/CU: ENTRANCE TO HADITHA; SIGN READING (WELCOME TO HADITHA) (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. GV: CRATER CAUSED BY THE ROADSIDE BOMB ON THE STREET 0.21 3. LV: U.S. VEHICLES IN DISTANCE SURROUNDING HADITHA 0.35 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED EYEWITNESS, SAYING: "The Americans
  • Embargoed: 19th August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: HADITHA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA36SGI3I1E0YKWF4JXXXLXHYQ5
  • Story Text: Bomb kills 14 Marines in western Iraq.



    Fourteen Marines were killed in a roadside bomb
    blast in western Iraq on Wednesday (Aug. 3), the U.S.

    military said, in one of the single deadliest attacks
    against U.S. forces since the beginning of the war.

    The bomb exploded near a Marine amphibious assault
    vehicle as it was travelling south of Haditha, a town on
    the Euphrates river about 200 km (120 miles) northwest of
    Baghdad. A civilian translator was also killed. One Marine
    was wounded.

    It is the second major deadly attack against Marines in
    the area in the past three days. On Monday, six Marines
    were killed in clashes with insurgents in Haditha, and a
    seventh was killed by a car bomb blast in Hit, southeast of
    the town.

    "The Americans came in the morning and a roadside bomb
    exploded on one of their tanks , we know that 14 soldiers
    killed and also two days ago ten of their soldiers were
    also killed," an eyewitness said.

    The western Anbar province of Iraq is the heartland of
    the Sunni Arab-led insurgency and has been one of the
    deadliest regions for U.S. forces since they invaded in
    March 2003. The towns of Falluja and Ramadi are also in
    Anbar.

    In December last year, 22 people were killed, including
    14 U.S. servicemen, when a suicide bomber blew himself up
    inside a mess hall at a military base in the northern city
    of Mosul. That was the deadliest attack on a U.S.

    installation since the war.

    At least 1,820 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since the
    beginning of the war. In the past month, more than 60 have
    died, many of them in Anbar. U.S. forces have launched two
    major offensives in the area since May to try to crush
    insurgents.




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