|
U.S. acknowledges 11 casualties
in one day in Iraq
BAGHDAD, February 8.— The U.S.
Army lost 11 soldiers on Wednesday in Iraq,
according to a military communiqué, which said that
the four most recent fatal casualties occurred in
combat in Al Anbar province.
The figure included the seven
individuals killed when a military combat crashed in
that same province. The most recent four were
members of the Marine Corps elite forces.
It was also learned that U.S. air
attacks against the city of Ameriya in Fallujah
killed 13 people, PL reported.
The joint U.S. and Iraqi forces
have cordoned off the neighborhoods of Qadisiya and
Yarmuk, both located in the western part of the
Iraqi capital, and have begun a series of raids, as
part of a large-scale offensive in a security plan
that will include 80,000 troops.
(Translated by Granma
International)
|
