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Seven Marines Killed, Several Wounded in Iraq Attack (Associated Press, 06 September 2004) A massive car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Fallujah on Monday, killing seven U.S. Marines and wounding several others, a U.S. military official said. . . . The strength of the blast sent the engine from the vehicle used in the bombing flying "a good distance" from the site, a military official said on condition of anonymity. . . . Wounded troops were being treated Monday afternoon, the official said. . . . U.S. forces have not patrolled inside Fallujah since April, when U.S. Marines ended a three-week siege. The city has since fallen into the hands of insurgents who have used it as a base to manufacture car bombs and launch attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government forces. . . . The U.S. military has retaliated by launching several airstrikes on insurgent safe houses in the city. . . . Witnesses said the attack took place nine miles north of Fallujah and destroyed two Humvees. . . . Medical teams in helicopters swept into the dusty barren site to ferry away the injured. Troops sealed off the area surrounding the wreckage. . . . With Monday's deaths and those of two U.S. soldiers in a mortar barrage outside Baghdad a day earlier, 985 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department.
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