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April 12, 2003
Release Number: 03-04-116
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. MARINE KILLED IN CHECKPOINT INCIDENT
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Marine from the First Marine Expeditionary Force was shot and killed here on Saturday by a individual carrying a Syrian identification card.
The Marine was guarding a checkpoint at a medical facility when two men, posing as landscape workers, approached the Marine. One man shot and killed the Marine.
Marines nearby shot and killed the Syrian man while the second attacker fled the scene.
The name of the Marine is being withheld pending next of kin notification.
An investigation of the incident is underway.
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