10 U.S. Troops Killed On Sunday

What was that about "Bring it on"?

Supporters of an anti-American cleric rioted in four Iraqi
cities Sunday, battling coalition troops in the worst unrest since the
spasm of looting and arson immediately after the fall of Saddam
Hussein. At least 22 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and one Salvadoran
soldier died.
Sunday's violence - along with the unrelated killings of two Marines in
Anbar province - pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 610.
In other developments Sunday:

• Two U.S. Marines, both assigned to the 1st Marine Division,
  were killed by an "enemy action" in Anbar province Saturday, the
  military said. One died Saturday and the other Sunday, the statement
  said without providing details.
  Anbar includes Fallujah, a city where four American civilian
  contractors were killed and mutilated on Wednesday.
  
• A bomb killed three security officers and wounded another at
  a checkpoint in Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, that was
  manned by Iraqi Civil Defense personnel, workers at Samarra General
  Hospital said.
  
• In Kirkuk, also in the north, a car bomb exploded, killing three civilians and wounding two others, police said.

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