Al-Anbar Attacks Kill Seven U.S. Marines, U.S. Military Says (Bloomberg)

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Al-Anbar Attacks Kill Seven U.S. Marines, U.S. Military Says
Dec. 13 (Bloomberg)

-- Attacks in Iraq's al-Anbar province killed seven U.S. Marines yesterday, the U.S. military command said in an e-mailed statement.

The soldiers died in two separate incidents while carrying out security operations in the province, the military said in a statement issued today. It didn't give any other details.

Al-Anbar province, lying west of the capital, Baghdad, is home to the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, part of the so-called Sunni Triangle that harbors supporters of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

A U.S. soldier killed Dec. 7 in Iraq was the 1,000th from the U.S. to die in hostilities in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to Pentagon data.

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