HELLO VIETNAM! (Iraq)

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C). An Iraqi sits amidst the ruble of the Al-Hassan Mosque in Fallujah, 50 kilometers, 31 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday July 1, 2003 hours after an explosion killed five people and injured four others. The blast raised tensions in a region already simmering with anti-American activity. Iraqi residents claimed the explosion was caused by a U.S. missile or bomb strike.

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Relatives weep Monday June 30, upon seeing the body of Kahtan Hashim, who was shot along with two others by US occupation troops at a checkpoint Al-Garma, Baghdad, late Sunday. Witnesses said the three men, who ignored the curfew to bring one of them to the hospital, were shot at and died instantly. The US occupation troops brought the wrecked vehicle with the bodies of the victims still in the wreckage, to a hospital in nearby Fallujah. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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No Vietnam: Rumsfeld denial while toll rising

Sydney Morning Herald. July 2 2003

Baghdad: Four US soldiers were reported killed and two wounded in an attack in Baghdad yesterday.

In the town of Falluja, meanwhile, an explosion on Monday night destroyed a mosque, killing at least six Iraqis, including Muslim clerics, and injuring four, witnesses and officials said yesterday. Iraqi civilians said the explosion was caused by a missile or bomb strike, but American soldiers at the scene said it was probably caused when explosives hidden at the site went off.

In the latest attack, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a US military vehicle near al-Mustansiriyah University in central Baghdad. Witnesses said four US troops were killed and two wounded. The casualties were immediately removed from the scene. An Iraqi civilian was also wounded.

A US official said there was no word on American casualties and "the incident has not been qualified as an attack yet". Earlier, a US soldier was slightly wounded when a convoy was fired on with a rocket-propelled grenade near Baghdad airport.