July 28, 2003




Operation qWagmire update
Two U.S. soldiers were badly wounded and may have been killed in a grenade attack in central Baghdad on Monday, hours after the U.S. ground forces commander in Iraq said the country is becoming a magnet for foreign terrorists targeting Americans.

Local eyewitnesses said the two soldiers appeared to have died after a man dropped a grenade on their vehicle from a road bridge at an intersection in broad daylight. Reuters journalists saw two motionless soldiers, one slumped in the rear seat of the Humvee, the other lying on the road. Both appeared dead and were receiving no medical aid. Iraqi police said they were dead, but a U.S. officer at the scene told Reuters that two of his men had been badly wounded in the attack but declined to say whether they had died.

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