US military announced that 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as US forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes while delivering new Iraqi currency to banks. But residents said Monday that the casualty figure was much lower and that the dead were mostly civilians.By the American account, Sunday's fighting was the bloodiest combat reported since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. The US military also said that attackers in Samarra, many wearing uniforms of Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary force, struck at two US convoys at opposite sides of Samarra.

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