U.S. strikes Fallujah as insurgents attack British troops
Friday, November 5, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents attacked British troops at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Thursday, killing three and wounding eight in a suicide bomb and mortar barrage aimed at soldiers sent to the high-risk area to free U.S. forces for an assault on the militant stronghold Fallujah.
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