Fresh Attacks Wound 8 US Soldiers in Iraq

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Fresh Attacks Wound 8 US Soldiers in Iraq

Fresh attacks wounded eight US soldiers Saturday in Iraq, said the US military.

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Fresh attacks wounded eight US soldiers Saturday in Iraq, said the US military.

Two soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were wounded early Saturday while patrolling Kirkuk, 275 km north of Baghdad.

Unknown attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms at the US patrols, according to Lt. Col. Bill McDonald, spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division operating there.

Two other US soldiers were injured in a bomb attack in central Baghdad, said Maj. Todd Mercer of the 82nd Airborne Division.

In Tikrit, 160 km north of Baghdad, the hometown of former IraqiPresident Saddam Hussein, four soldiers were slightly wounded overnight in an attack on their base, said an army spokesman.

The US troops were continuously attacked in different parts of Iraq by unidentified fighters, who called their movements as resistance against American presence in Iraq.

The US officials blamed the assaults on remnants of the former regime of Saddam Hussein and foreign terrorists such as members of the al-Qaida network.

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