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Iraq-Jordan
Sadrites have won a great victory
2004-08-28
We desperately need for them to win more victories like this one.

Since fighting began in early August, as many as 1,000 guerrillas may have been killed, U.S. commanders say, along with 11 U.S. Marines and soldiers. More than 100 soldiers have been wounded, including dozens of serious injuries. About 3,000 U.S. soldiers took part in the fight, battling somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 guerrillas, a number that varied as Iraqis joined or quit the battle.

For every shot they took, U.S. soldiers returned scores or hundreds. For every mortar round the guerrillas lobbed, the gunners at the Marine base here responded with a 100-pound artillery shell. The insurgents had donkey carts loaded with rocket-propelled grenades, the soldiers 70-ton tanks that can survive direct hits from mortars and grenades. The U.S. advantage was especially large at night, when night-vision goggles allowed soldiers to see in the dark.
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