Several Wounded In New
Attacks On US Forces
In Iraq
By
Naseer Al-Nahr - Asharq Al-Awsat
8-5-3
- BAGHDAD -- Five US
soldiers and an Iraqi translator were wounded in attacks here yesterday
and a police station was torched as the US-led coalition scoured the
globe for nations willing to replace some of its combat-weary
troops.
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- Iraqi civilians were also being struck down in the
low-level war between US troops and loyalists of Saddam Hussein, while a
military spokesman acknowledged four people were killed by US fire
during a hunt for the fugitive strongman in Baghdadâs upmarket
neighborhood of Mansour last week.
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- Meanwhile, the United States and Britain have called
for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Iraq, the
Security Council president said yesterday.
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- The council may meet on Thursday or Friday at the
request of those two countries, said Syrian Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe,
who is presiding over the 15-nation UN Council for August.
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- In a bold move, insurgents wounded three soldiers and
an Iraqi translator in an anti-tank rocket and bomb attack yesterday
near the heavily fortified Baghdad police headquarters, the nexus for
law enforcement in the city of five million.
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- It was the second attack of the day after soldiers
were again ambushed on the lethal route to Baghdad airport, where
convoys regularly come under fire. "Today, at 9:25 a.m. (0525 GMT), on
the airport road, an improvised explosive device was thrown on a convoy
of the Third Armored Division," Sgt. Marc Ingham said. "Two soldiers
were wounded and one Humvee disabled."
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- In a third clash yesterday, Iraqi police opened fire
on armed men who fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a US military
vehicle and accompanying police in Khalidiya, 100 kilometers (60 miles)
west of Baghdad.
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- Residents protesting the presence of US troops
attacked the Khalidiya town hall and a police station, which they set
alight, as the US Army called in helicopter-backed reinforcements to
restore order in the town, considered a hotbed of support for the former
regime.
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- It was a setback for the US-led coalitionâs efforts to
rehabilitate the countryâs security services, as training for the
postwar Iraqi Army was due to get under way this week.
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- North of Baghdad, in Saddamâs hometown of Tikrit, the
4th Infantry Division grabbed another guerrilla fighter, and boasted its
intelligence was tightening the noose on its enemies.
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- Lt. Col. Steve Russell said yesterday the coalition
had captured another key link in the chain of localized resistance. The
coalition denies there is any national organization for the insurgents.
ãThe main guy we targeted last night turned himself in this morning. He
was an organizer, a former regime loyalist,ä Russell
said.
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