Operation Valiant Resolve: DN reporting 8 dead in early fighting:

[JaySherman]

7 Iraqis, 1 Marine.

edit - links:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4749740§ion=news

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier and a Marine were killed in separate attacks by guerrillas in Iraq, the U.S. army said Monday.

It said the Marine was killed in the tense area west of Baghdad Monday. The soldier was killed by a car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk Sunday.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?reportID=562588&storyID=3559147
Violence erupts across Iraq

06.04.2004
12.15am UDPATE

Violence erupts across Iraq

BAGHDAD - US helicopters have blasted targets in Baghdad as a showdown intensifies with radical Shi'ite militiamen challenging America's postwar blueprint for Iraq.

Reuters journalists said they saw two Apache helicopters attacking targets in the mainly Shi'ite Shuala district in the northwest of the city, where a US vehicle was in flames.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3E23D7FF-3065-48E5-9810-BD63DDCB03EA.htm

At least five people have been killed and several others injured after two US Apache helicopters launched an air strike targeting an al-Sadr bureau in al-Shula area of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

[Teaser]

1. Which operation is this now?

I'm losing track.

[Moderator]

2. locking

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