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U.S. soldiers hurt in grenade attack

DUBAI MAY 1. Amid growing anti-American sentiments in the tense Iraqi city of Fallujah, seven U.S. soldiers were wounded when unidentified men lobbed two grenades at their headquarters.

The American soldiers were injured when grenades were lobbed over the wall of the headquarters, an officer with the 82nd Airborne Division said. The troops exchanged gunfire with Iraqis after the attack but the attackers appeared to have escaped.

Another officer described the attack as "an expression of the anger of a few people in the city after what happened," referring to the deaths of 15 Iraqis in clashes with the U.S. troops in the last four days. Falluja, 50 km west of Baghdad, is a predominantly Sunni Muslim town, which was formerly a stronghold of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party. — PTI

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