Military

UPDATE ON COALITION CASUALTIES  

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An eighth Task Force 1^st Armored Division Soldier died of wounds received during a small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade attack Sunday evening in Sadr City.  More than two dozen Soldiers were wounded in the April 4 attack.

In a separate incident Sunday, reports of a U.S. Soldier's death in An Najaf are not correct.  One El Salvadoran soldier was killed and 12 El Salvadoran soldiers and one U.S. Soldier were wounded April 4 when a large number of men, many dressed in black, attacked a Coalition base with small-arms fire in An Najaf. 

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