'We Will Not Turn Back': ; 4 American Civilians Burned, Dragged Through Streets; 5 Gis Killed by Bomb in Deadliest Day Since January

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In perhaps the grisliest attack on Americans since Baghdad fell nearly a year ago, residents of the unruly town of Fallujah burned and mutilated the corpses of four American civilians who were killed in an ambush by insurgents Wednesday.

The attack came hours after five U.S. soldiers were killed northwest of the town when their armored personnel carrier ran over a bomb, the largest American military death toll in a single incident since Jan. 8.

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'We Will Not Turn Back': ; 4 American Civilians Burned, Dragged Through Streets; 5 Gis Killed by Bomb in Deadliest Day Since January

Images captured by Arab camera crews in Fallujah but deemed too lurid to broadcast showed shrieking young men and boys kicking a charred corpse and holding dog tags near one body. Although the person appeared dead, the blows made the corpse quiver as though the man were st...

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