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Grenade Attack Wounds Five U.S. Soldiers in Fallujah, Iraq.

By Andrea Gerlin, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 2--BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. military officials in Baghdad said Thursday that American troops in the city of Fallujah had been attacked late Wednesday by someone who rolled a grenade into their compound, wounding five.

The grenade attack was a continuation of the tensions that have gripped that city west of Baghdad for much of the week. Two earlier incidents left 17 Iraqis dead when U.S. troops fired into crowds after someone in the crowds fired at them.

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