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Crowds Cheer Deadly Attacks in Fallujah

By Ivan Watson

Published March 30, 2004 at 11:00 PM CST

Five U.S. soldiers are killed in a roadside bombing west of Baghdad. In Fallujah, four civilian foreigners -- including one American -- are killed when insurgents ambush their vehicles in Fallujah, a Sunni stronghold. Cheering crowds drag the corpses through the streets and hang them from a bridge. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

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