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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

What they won't put on the front page:
(From the Boston Globe)

In Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, US soldiers and Iraqi police rushed to the city's Governance Center after a crowd of about 750 pro-Hussein demonstrators fired guns in the air and attempted to take over the building. After members of the crowd fired on the soldiers and wounded one American, a coalition official said, soldiers returned fire, killing two Iraqis and wounding two others.

Further east, in Fallujah, armed demonstrators overran the mayor's office after Iraqi police withdrew to their barracks rather than trying to control the crowd, US officials said. American soldiers "repeatedly engaged the local leaders to respond to the situation, but the Iraqi police in Fallujah did not react adequately," a coalition official said.

US soldiers killed at least one Iraqi in Fallujah, who officials said had fired a grenade.

Meanwhile in Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, US soldiers killed 11 Iraqis while repelling a "complex ambush" late Monday, coalition officials said.

Guerrillas attacked a US patrol at two points while it drove through the city, releasing a flock of pigeons as a signal to strike, the officials said. First, two men opened fire from a motorcycle in front of a school. Moments later, a second group of fighters mounted a coordinated attack, using a bomb, machine guns, and rocket propelled grenades.

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