NEAR NASSIRIYA (Reuters) - U.S. Marines battled Iraqi guerrillas for control of the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya on Sunday, taking "significant'' casualties in a fight to open a route north to Baghdad, U.S. officers said....
U.S. field officers said the Marine battalion spearheading the fight had suffered significant casualties in a battle with irregular guerrilla fighters known as Saddam's Fedayeen.
They gave no details but a CNN television correspondent at Nassiriya quoted eyewitnesses in the battle as saying they had seen at least 10 American bodies around an amphibious assault vehicle that had been hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. -- New York Times, March 23
(See also this story in The Guardian and this one in the San Diego Union-Tribune.)
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