Well, the US military says that the Marines were out on foot conducting operations outside Hadithah.
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He's embedded with an Army unit along the Euphrates River not far from the Marines in Hadithah.
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Brigadier General CARTER HAM: This morning at about 0630 local time in Iraq, a mounted US Marine element operation near Hadithah was attacked by an explosive device.
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