Is this revenge for Quasay and Uday?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:44:55 -0400 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ugnet_: THREE AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ > Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Ambush > 55 minutes ago > > By MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer > > BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three American soldiers were killed Thursday when their convoy was > hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in northern Iraq (news - web sites), a > military spokeswoman said. > > > > The killings were further signs that an insurgency against American troops is not > losing strength as Washington hoped after the deaths Tuesday of Saddam Hussein (news > - web sites)'s sons Odai and Qusai. > > > V Corps spokeswoman Spc. Nicole Thompson said the soldiers, members of the 101st > Airborne Division, were traveling in a convoy toward Qayyarah, 186 miles north of > the capital, Baghdad, when they were at attacked around 2:30 a.m. > > > No soldiers were reported wounded and it wasn't known if any attackers were killed > or wounded. Thompson didn't know where they were traveling from. > > > On Wednesday, two American soldiers were killed in separate attacks on their > convoys, including one near the northern city of Mosul where Saddam's sons were > killed in an intense firefight with members of the 101st Airborne Division. > > > The American deaths Thursday brought to 158 the number of U.S. servicemen killed in > action since the war began March 20, surpassing by 11 the death toll in the 1991 > Gulf War (news - web sites). > > > Odai and Qusai were Nos. 2 and 3 on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted from the toppled > Saddam regime. Guerrilla holdouts loyal to the regime have attacked U.S. forces at a > rate of about 12 times daily in an effort to wear down the Americans and drive them > from the country. > > > To prove to Iraqis the brothers are dead, Defense Secretary H. Donald Rumsfeld said > the United States would release photographs of their bodies, but didn't say when. > The photos are likely to be gruesome because the fighting to capture the house was > intense. > > > In Sadr City, a poor suburb of Baghdad formerly called Saddam City, some residents > wanted to be sure the brothers were dead. > > > "We heard about Odai and Qusai being killed and, frankly, we are happy," Fadil Abbas > told Associated Press Television News. "The question is, what's the proof of them > being killed. We heard about it, but we haven't seen any proof so far." > > > Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of coalition troops in Iraq, said the brothers, > along with two other Iraqis believed to be a bodyguard and Qusai's teenage son > Mustafa barricaded themselves on the second floor of a three-story home in Mosul. He > said they were killed after anti-tank rockets were fired from Humvees during the > sporadic four-hour siege. > > > In a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his home in London, Izzedin > Kamel Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of the two brothers, said Odai and Qusai were likely > relaxing in the Mosul home when the American soldiers approached it. > > > "They went to this man in particular because he was a member of the family and they > thought they could stay there for a while, be safe and then go somewhere else," he > said. > > > Also Wednesday, a tape purportedly made by Saddam called on Iraqis to press their > uprising against the U.S.-led occupation. The tape reportedly was made Sunday, two > days before the killing of Saddam's eldest sons. > > > The CIA (news - web sites) was analyzing the audio message broadcast by Arab TV but > has reached no conclusion about its authenticity, said a U.S. intelligence official, > speaking on condition of anonymity. > > The Mulindwas Communication Group > "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de communication Mulindwas > "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers
