IRAQI RESISTANCE

ITAR: 11 US Troops Wounded In Iraq Wednesday

BEIRUT, October 23 (Itar-Tass) - Eleven U.S. soldiers were wounded in various parts of Iraq during the past 24 hours as a result of armed actions of resistance fighters against the coalition troops, Al-Jazeera TV station of Qatar reports.

The attackers threw several grenades at a military police patrol in El-Habbani, 75 kilometres away from Baghdad. Three U.S. soldiers were wounded. An armoured jeep struck a mine on a highway connecting El-Amiriya and El-Falluja. According to witnesses, four U.S. soldiers were gravely wounded and taken to hospital. A patrol car struck a mine in Kirkuk. Two soldiers were wounded.