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Grenade Attack Kills Soldier in Fallujah
Aired June 05, 2003 - 05:05 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: As President Bush is heading home on Air Force One, more violence in Fallujah. A grenade attack has killed one American soldier and wounded five others.
CNN's Jane Arraf joins us live from Baghdad. She has the details -- what happened, Jane?
JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, details are pretty sketchy, but we do know it happened very early this morning. It might have been on a night patrol, because it was just after midnight local time when someone appeared to have fired on a group of U.S. soldiers with a rocket propelled grenade.
Now, one was killed and several others injured. And Fallujah has been a trouble spot ever since April, when soldiers fired on a group of demonstrators, killing more than a dozen of them. Since then, we've had frequent flare-ups in violence and about 1,500 members of the 3rd Infantry Division were deployed there just a couple of days ago to try to put down that violence and to calm that town, which remains a major trouble spot. But still, it's pretty tense, it seems -- Carol.
COSTELLO: I understand. Call to prayer going on behind you.
We'll let you go for now.
Jane Arraf reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired June 5, 2003 - 05:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: As President Bush is heading home on Air Force One, more violence in Fallujah. A grenade attack has killed one American soldier and wounded five others.
CNN's Jane Arraf joins us live from Baghdad. She has the details -- what happened, Jane?
JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, details are pretty sketchy, but we do know it happened very early this morning. It might have been on a night patrol, because it was just after midnight local time when someone appeared to have fired on a group of U.S. soldiers with a rocket propelled grenade.
Now, one was killed and several others injured. And Fallujah has been a trouble spot ever since April, when soldiers fired on a group of demonstrators, killing more than a dozen of them. Since then, we've had frequent flare-ups in violence and about 1,500 members of the 3rd Infantry Division were deployed there just a couple of days ago to try to put down that violence and to calm that town, which remains a major trouble spot. But still, it's pretty tense, it seems -- Carol.
COSTELLO: I understand. Call to prayer going on behind you.
We'll let you go for now.
Jane Arraf reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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