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Four US marines killed in Operation Matador
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-14 18:48
Four Marines have been killed in fighting in western Iraq, the American
military said Saturday, bringing to nine the number of U.S. personnel killed
during a weeklong operation against insurgents.
The four were killed Wednesday when their troop transporter was struck by a
bomb near Karabilah, a village close to the Syrian border, during Operation
Matador, the Marines said in a statement.
The statement said Marine commanders estimate more than 100 insurgents and
foreign fighters have been killed during the operation, which is aimed at allies
of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
At least 1,617 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of
the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press
count.
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