U.S. Military Launches Operation in Baghdad
The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 12, 2003; 2:10
PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S.-led coalition forces launched a military operation in
Baghdad late Wednesday, targeting a facility used by insurgents and setting off
explosions that reverberated through the Iraqi capital. "The facility is a known meeting, planning, storage and rendezvous point for
belligerent elements currently conducting attacks on coalition forces and
infrastructure," the Pentagon said in a statement from Washington. "The destruction of this structure will deny enemy forces any use of it in
the future." The 1st Armored Division operation came hours after a suicide bombing at a
headquarters for Italian forces in the southern city of Nasiriyah -- the
deadliest assault on American allies in Iraq since the U.S.-led occupation. Up to a dozen detonations were heard about 9:15 p.m., apparently centered
away from the heart of the city.
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