AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq -- One year after U.S. Marines toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein in a central Baghdad square, fighting raged across Iraq on Friday, claiming six U.S. lives in fierce gunbattles and ambushes.
At least one Marine died in Al-Fallujah after U.S. commanders declared a cease-fire at noon. By midnight, fighting appeared to have resumed in earnest, with loud explosions and heavy machine-gun fire audible from several miles away. Tracer bullets could be seen in the distance.
The deaths of five additional Americans were reported as violence spread in Iraq.
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