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Iraq
Fighting intensifies in Ramadi; two U.S. soldiers killed
Associated Press
Published September 24, 2005
BAGHDAD - Heavy fighting surged Friday in the Euphrates River city of Ramadi, police and hospital officials said, and the U.S. military reported the deaths of two soldiers around the militant stronghold.
In Baghdad, a suicide bomber on a public minibus set off an explosives belt as the vehicle approached a busy terminal Friday, killing at least five people and wounding eight, police said.
Also in the capital, gunmen killed a member of the commission charged with ensuring former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime are banned from the Iraqi government, police said. Thirteen commission members have been killed since it was created two years ago.
The latest military deaths occurred Thursday: one a roadside bombing between Ramadi and nearby Fallujah, the other in a gunbattle in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad.
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