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Six Marines Killed in Car Bomb Attack

They were in a SEVEN TON truck. At least four of these Marines killed were female, which means they were technically non-combat troops. This makes Friday the worst day for American women in uniform killed since World War Two.

On Thursday, for the first time in the war, a large number of women suffered and died together after a strike that military officials suspect was carefully planned and might have been aimed at the women.

By the way, the above happened in “pacified” Fallujah. Meanwhile:

In one such sectarian killing, gunmen Friday targeted an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric. Police said two bodyguards also were killed trying to protect another Shiite cleric in Baghdad’s predominantly Shiite al-Amin district.

On Saturday, a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside a police officer’s home north of Baghdad, killing at least nine people, police and hospital officials said. The bomber, accompanied by five cars loaded with armed insurgents, slammed into a wall outside the home of Lt. Muthana al-Shaker in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, said police Lt. Qassim Mohammed.

All those killed were on the street. Al-Shaker was not injured, Mohammed said.

Elsewhere, gunmen ambushed a police patrol in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, killing eight policemen Friday, police and hospital officials said Saturday.

Gunmen killed two policemen from a commando unit patrolling western Baghdad on Saturday, police 1st Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said. In addition, Iraqi police found the corpse of a uniformed policeman in another section of Baghdad, his hands bound behind his back and plastic wire around his neck, police Capt. Mohammed Izz al-Din said.

In a separate incident Saturday, gunmen killed three policemen on a road about 46 miles south of Amarah, police 1st Lt. Hussein Karim Hassan said.

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