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Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq attacks

Tuesday, October 4, 2005; Posted: 7:07 a.m. EDT (11:07 GMT)


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/04/iraq.main/


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine have been killed in attacks in Iraq, military officials said Tuesday.

The deaths were announced on the same day as U.S.-led forces launched an offensive in the western province of Anbar, where four of the troops died, military statements said.

Three soldiers from the 2nd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) died from injuries sustained in a blast Monday, officials said.

All three were involved in combat operations in the Anbar city of Haqlaniya, a statement said, but it was not clear whether they were all killed by the same roadside bomb.

Separately, a U.S. Marine was killed in action Monday by a roadside bomb in the Anbar city of Karabila, a military statement said. The Marine was assigned to the same combat team as the soldiers and was involved in Operation Iron Fist. (Watch Marines battle insurgents in Karabila. (Viewer discsretion advised) -- 2:28)

A U.S. soldier with the Army's 56th Brigade Combat Team died Monday morning from injuries sustained from a gunshot wound near Taqaddum in central Iraq, a military statement said Tuesday. The incident that happened about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad is under