Six More GIs Dead In Iraq Violence
Total Of 11 U.S. Troops Killed Thursday Amid Surge In Attacks
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Play CBS Video Video Violent Day In Iraq On one of the deadliest days in Iraq in months, suicide bombers and insurgent gunmen killed at least 125 Iraqis, and five Americans died in a roadside bombing. Kelly Cobiella reports.
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Video Carnage In Iraq It has been an extremely deadly day in Iraq. At least 130 people have been killed, including five U.S. soldiers. Claudia Coffey reports.
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Video More Than 100 Dead In Iraq Roadside bombings have killed five U.S. troops, and suicide bombers targeting Shiite pilgrims and police recruits have claimed more than 100 lives. Scott Rapoport reports.
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U.S. soldiers of the 501 Special Troops Battalion inspect an abandoned house in a rural area on the outskirts of the northern city of Tikrit, January 2, 2006. (Getty Images/Filippo Monteforte)
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A coffin is carried for burial of one of the victims of Thursday's Karabala suicide bombing January 6, 2006. (Getty Images/Qassem Zein)
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Relatives indentify an infant victim in a suicide bomb attack, outside of the hospital in Karbala, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2006. (CBS/AP)
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Bodies lie in the street after suicide bomb attack in Karbala, Iraq, in this image taken from TV, Jan. 5, 2006. (AP)
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This video still shows a child with a face stained by blood after an attack near a Shiite shrine in Karbala, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2006. (AP /APTN)
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A U.S. Marine and soldier died in the attack by a suicide bomber who infiltrated a line of police recruits in Ramadi Thursday, and two soldiers were killed in the Baghdad area when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb, the military said Friday.
Two U.S. Marines were killed by separate small arms attacks while conducting combat operations in Fallujah on Thursday, the military said. Five soldiers were also killed by a roadside bomb south of Karbala on Thursday, the military had announced previously.
At least 189 people were killed in a string of suicide attacks and roadside bombs Wednesday and Thursday.
The eleven U.S. deaths were the most in a single day since 11 troops were killed on Dec. 1, when 10 Marines were killed by a roadside bomb while on a foot patrol near Fallujah.
At least 2,194 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began, according to an Associated Press count. The names and hometowns of the eleven troops killed Thursday weren't released.
In other developments:
Suicide bombers penetrated a line of police recruits in Ramadi and a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Karbala Thursday, killing 125 civilians, a stark surge in post-election violence and the fourth deadliest day in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Ball bearings from the suicide attacker's vest lay scattered on the bare earth next to Shiite Islam's holiest shrine in Iraq after the Karbala attack. At least 63 people were killed.
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