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Bloodshed Continues in Iraq: One U.S. Soldier, 11 Iraqis Dead

Aired July 04, 2003 - 09:05   ET

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HEIDI COLLINS, ANCHOR: And we want to go back to Iraq for a moment, Miles. And as you said, the latest wave of violence taking lives on both sides now.
U.S. officials -- Centcom that is -- say 11 Iraqis have been killed in a fight with U.S. troops, and a U.S. soldier was shot and killed while guarding the national museum in Baghdad.

Nic Robertson is live in Falusia (ph) now with the very latest on all of this.

Hello to you, Nic.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Heidi.

Well, not a holiday certainly for many of the troops still out there in Iraq patrolling the roads, bringing security around the country.

Several of them involved in an incident in Balad (ph). This is a town about three hours' drive north of Baghdad on the main highway for north of the country. It's an oil-producing town, a key, critical town. There's a large U.S. military base there.

A number of troops were patrolling the highway there. They were engaged in -- by Iraqis with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades. The U.S. troops returned fire, killing all 11 Iraqis.

That incident in Balad (ph) came only hours after the U.S. base there had been mortared overnight, injuring at least ten U.S. soldiers.

And perhaps the most severe incident today happening to a U.S. soldier, the death of a soldier in his Bradley fighting vehicle. He was manning the gun on the turret, standing guard outside Baghdad's national museum, when he was shot, apparently by a lone gunman -- Heidi.

COLLINS: Nic Robertson, thanks so much for the update on all of that that is going on at this moment.

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Aired July 4, 2003 - 09:05   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, ANCHOR: And we want to go back to Iraq for a moment, Miles. And as you said, the latest wave of violence taking lives on both sides now.
U.S. officials -- Centcom that is -- say 11 Iraqis have been killed in a fight with U.S. troops, and a U.S. soldier was shot and killed while guarding the national museum in Baghdad.

Nic Robertson is live in Falusia (ph) now with the very latest on all of this.

Hello to you, Nic.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Heidi.

Well, not a holiday certainly for many of the troops still out there in Iraq patrolling the roads, bringing security around the country.

Several of them involved in an incident in Balad (ph). This is a town about three hours' drive north of Baghdad on the main highway for north of the country. It's an oil-producing town, a key, critical town. There's a large U.S. military base there.

A number of troops were patrolling the highway there. They were engaged in -- by Iraqis with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades. The U.S. troops returned fire, killing all 11 Iraqis.

That incident in Balad (ph) came only hours after the U.S. base there had been mortared overnight, injuring at least ten U.S. soldiers.

And perhaps the most severe incident today happening to a U.S. soldier, the death of a soldier in his Bradley fighting vehicle. He was manning the gun on the turret, standing guard outside Baghdad's national museum, when he was shot, apparently by a lone gunman -- Heidi.

COLLINS: Nic Robertson, thanks so much for the update on all of that that is going on at this moment.

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