Boat explosion in Basra kills 2 U.S. Navy sailors
At least 12 Iraqis die in mortar attack on Baghdad market

Saturday, April 24, 2004 Posted: 8:02 PM EDT (0002 GMT)


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two U.S. sailors died Saturday after a small boat
they boarded off Basra, Iraq, exploded, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said.

The two were part of a seven-member boarding team. Four others were wounded.

The explosion was the first of three at Iraq's main oil terminal in the
Persian Gulf. The blasts occurred shortly before 6:20 p.m. (10:20 a.m. ET).

Twenty minutes after the blast flipped the small boat and tossed the
sailors into the water, security officers intercepted two other boats as
they approached the terminal.

Each exploded near moored ships, the Navy said. The coalition believes
the boat attacks were coordinated

Earlier Saturday, a mortar attack killed at least 12 Iraqis in a crowded
market in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. It was the first of the
day's series of attacks that left at least 28 people dead, including
five U.S. soldiers and the two sailors.

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More lives wasted for the Republican wet dream.