U.S. Forces Take Heavy Losses As Violence Spreads Across Iraq
About A Dozen Marines Killed; Foreigners, Scores Of Iraqis Die
(Washington Post, April 7, 2004, Pg. 1)
Sunni Muslim insurgents in Iraq killed about a dozen U.S. Marines in heavy fighting in the western city of Ramadi. Troops from the United States and several allied countries also came under fire from militiamen loyal to Moqtada Sadr, a militant Shiite Muslim cleric, in cities across southern Iraq