What is it with those darn Iraqi guerillas? Didn't they get Karl Rove's memo? Things are going
great in Iraq! Now why do they want to go and ruin things by, you know,
killing more Americans?
A U.S. soldier and two civilians were killed after an American patrol was attacked in the flashpoint Iraqi town of Falluja Monday, the U.S. military and witnesses said.
A U.S. military spokeswoman said a roadside bomb exploded as the patrol was driving past. Attackers then fired assault rifles at the Americans, who returned fire [...]
The military said five U.S. soldiers were also wounded in the incident, which brought to 104 the number of U.S. troops killed in hostile fire in Iraq since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.