"Resistance fighters 'pose no strategic threat,' says administrator, L. Paul Bremer, as 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed: ...his guardedly upbeat message, meant perhaps to reassure a shaken public about the visibly increasing costs of occupying Iraq, came even as violence and unrest there continued.
On Sunday, two American soldiers died in an ambush west of the northern city of Mosul, in a Sunni tribal area beyond the central triangle where most attacks have occurred."
In the southern city of Najaf, United States marines found themselves in a standoff with more than 10,000 mainly Shiite demonstrators, angered by rumors that American troops had harassed a cleric who had condemned the United States-led occupation.
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