BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas stormed an Iraqi army post on Friday, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 20, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told U.S. combat troops their numbers would fall as Iraqi forces were trained to take over.
While Rumsfeld made a pre-Christmas visit to a Marine base in the subdued rebel stronghold of Falluja, west of Baghdad, gunmen launched a frontal assault on the roadside outpost near Adhaim, north of the capital, that lasted all morning.
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