Nov. 17, 2004, 11:45PM
10 killed as blast hits U.S. convoy
In Fallujah, U.S. says insurgents may have returned to secure areas
By ANTHONY SHADID
Washington Post
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A car carrying explosives ripped into a U.S. convoy Wednesday in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 people, and U.S. troops fought persistent pockets of rebels in Fallujah, a city wrecked by more than a week of fighting.
Black smoke billowed over Fallujah, once home to about 200,000 people, as U.S. forces faced insurgents staging hit-and-run raids on patrols moving through the city's dense warrens. Military commanders had no estimates on the number of rebels still fighting, but the staccato bursts of gunfire and thunder from tank rounds in the city's center countered Iraqi and U.S. claims over the weekend that fighting there had largely ended.
U.S. commanders say they hold the entire city but acknowledge that rebels have moved back into areas believed to have been secured. While the entrances to the city are blocked, the fighters may be plying old paths into Fallujah or crossing the Euphrates River, whose palm-shrouded banks skirt the city.
Deaths in Baiji
In Baiji, an oil refinery town north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said a car bomb barreled toward a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and detonated, wounding three soldiers. The military had no count of civilian casualties, but news agencies, quoting hospital officials, reported that at least 10 Iraqis were killed and 12 people wounded — including the soldiers — in the blast and shooting that ensued.
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