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Marines clash with iraqi fighters baghdad { April 10 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=20432 http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=20432 Thursday, April 10, 2003 World Marines clash with Iraqi fighters in Baghdad Press Trust of India/Agence-France Press Baghdad, April 10: US marines came under heavy fire in baghdad on Thursday from fighters loyal to Saddam Hussein in a sharp reminder that the war in Iraq was far from over, just one day after the fall of the capital to US forces. Reports of the pre-dawn clashes, which Left one US soldier dead, came as a series of loud blasts rang out in Baghdad, waking the city's residents on the first day in more than two decades free of the Iraqi leader's iron-fisted rule. As mystery continued to swirl around Saddam's fate, the United States relegated him to what US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the "pantheon of failed, brutal dictators", but warned that a coalition victory was not yet in hand. Iraqi loyalist fighters hiding in buildings, under cars, and beneath bridges attacked US marines along the northern banks of the Tigris river from about 2:00 am (0300 IST Wednesday), an AFP correspondent on the ground saw. "There were at least 13 casualties and one soldier killed in action," said US First Sergeant Jeff Treiber, adding that artillery fire could be heard outside the walls of Saddam's Azmiyah palace. A series of explosions were heard in the capital from7:30 am (0900 IST) as planes buzzed overhead, but it was not immediately clear where the blasts had occurred or if coalition planes had caused them, the AFP correspondent reported. Today, coalition forces continued to gain control over the city, with major Pete Farnum saying a mosque on the northern banks of the Tigris -- a suspected Saddam stronghold -- had been secured. A BBC correspondent said US troops had searched the mosque, where Saddam was rumoured to be hiding.

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