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June 29, 2003
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Attacks on US, UK forces: a chronology
BAGHDAD, June 28: Following is a list of the main attacks on US-led forces since May 1:
May 1: Seven American soldiers are wounded in an attack in Fallujah.
May 8: A US soldier is killed by a lone gunman in Baghdad.
May 26: An American soldier is killed in an explosives attack near Baghdad and another dies in the ambush of a military convoy near Haditah.
May 27: Two US soldiers are killed and nine more injured in a rocket-launcher attack in Fallujah.
May 29: An American soldier is killed by Iraqi gunfire on a road north of Baghdad.
June 3: A US soldier dies after a grenade attack on a roadblock at Balad, north of Baghdad.
June 5: One American soldier dies and five others are injured in a grenade attack in Fallujah.
June 7: One Americans dies and four are hurt in an attack by grenade and small arms fire near Tikrit, north of the capital.
June 8: In Al-Qaim, in the west of the country, a US soldier is killed by a group of armed Iraqis who pretend to be in need of urgent medical help.
June 10: A US soldier is killed and another seriously injured at an arms collection point.
June 16: an American solider injured by a sniper attack on a patrol in Baghdad, dies of his injuries the following day.
June 18: One dead and another injured in a drive-by shooting incident at a Baghdad service station.
June 19: An American soldier is killed and two others injured in a rocket attack in Baghdad.
June 22: A US soldier is killed in a grenade attack south of Baghdad.
June 24: Six British soldiers die in a shootout with local residents angered at the use of dog patrols in the town of Al Majar Al Kabir. This was the first British fatalities from enemy fire since the end of the invasion.
June 26: An American soldier dies and eight others are injured by “enemy fire” in Baghdad.
Another soldier is killed in an Iraqi attack on a patrol at Kufah.
June 27: A US soldier dies and four of his colleagues are injured in a grenade attack on their convoy in Baghdad.
June 28: The bodies of two American soldiers abducted on June 25 at a rocket-demolition site near Balad are discovered near Baghdad. —AFP
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