http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6692775/U.S. strikes Fallujah; 2 U.S. troops killed
Much of Iraq in darkness after massive power failure
The Associated Press
Updated: 5:00 p.m. ET Dec. 12, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded Fallujah with missiles Sunday as insurgents fought running battles with coalition forces in the volatile western Iraqi city. The U.S. military said two troops died in separate incidents.
The military said Sunday a soldier was killed a day earlier in a roadside bomb blast in the capital’s northern suburbs. Three other soldiers were also wounded in the ambush. A Marine died in action Sunday in Anbar province, a vast region comprising the battleground cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
As of Sunday, at least 1,289 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Meanwhile, a large swath of Iraq lost electricity Sunday after a fire erupted in a major power plant north of Baghdad. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi called the fire an accident, but he accused guerrillas of hurting Iraqis with attacks on infrastructure.
The capital went dark about 4 p.m. (8 a.m. ET), and power was still out at 7 p.m. The only lights came from the Green Zone and a few other places that have their own generators.
Witnesses in several other parts of the country — including Basra to the south and Najaf to the southwest — also reported having no power.
The fire at the Beiji power plant, 155 miles north of Baghdad, was probably an accident, Allawi said on a live call-in show on Iraqiya television.
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