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Iraq: bloodied week-end

Baghdad, Iraq - There were victims among Americans as well as Iraqis

In an ambush happened along the road heading to Hillah, South to Baghdad, two American dependents for Blackwater Security Consulting (society providing security services for US State Department officers in Iraq), have been killed: a bomb exploded at the moment of their passage, a third person would be left wounded. An American soldier from the Task Force Freedom has been killed on Saturday evening...

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Rome, Italy, 03/14/2005 12:11
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