OK were 18 soldiers killed or just wounded?

seems to be now that they were just wounded... does anyone know?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Dozens of insurgents attacked Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad on Saturday, detonating two suicide car bombs and firing rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. forces before the assault was repelled, the U.S. military said.

At least 20 U.S. soldiers were wounded in the fighting, which lasted around an hour, a U.S. officer said. At least 12 detainees were also wounded, some severely. It was not known how many insurgents were wounded or killed.

"A group of between 40 and 60 insurgents attacked the U.S. forward operating base at Abu Ghraib," Lieutenant Colonel Guy Rudisill, spokesman for detainee affairs, told Reuters, saying the attack began at around 10 a.m. EST.
more...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-04-02T194858Z_01_L02281218_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-IRAQ-PRISON-DC.XML

20 wounded, 18 of the wounds minor.

That could mean most anything though

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/international/middleeast/03ghraib.html?oref=login

in the middle of a busy news cycle to minimize the effect.

Otherwise, they can no longer manipulate the American people.

per http://icasualties.org/oif/

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...claimed that number of casualties (killed+wounded).

The authorized outlets will let us know in due course
whether anything happened and if so what happened, in the
meantime don't get distracted from the current authorized
programming. You are being watched.

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