Centcom’s Deputy Director of Operations Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters Wednesday that he has “no reason to claim inaccurate figures” in the count of Iraqi casualties.

“In fact we stand by those numbers,” Kimmitt said. “Those numbers were provided by soldiers who were involved in the engagement and we see no other evidence to suggest those numbers are incorrect.”

Fourth Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse soldiers repelled a series of ambush attempts Sunday on a convoy of Iraqi currency exchange trucks for which the troops were providing security.

The convoy was delivering currency to two banks in Samarra.

“The people who attacked those trucks were attacking not only coalition soldiers,” Kimmitt said, “but they were attacking Iraqi’s that were trying to provide money for a restored destabilized Iraq.”

Five U.S. soldiers were wounded in the ambushes, but none of the injuries was life threatening, military officials said.