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Troops dead in Iraq city blasts
Six coalition soldiers have been killed and many others injured after several blasts in the Iraqi city of Karbala, military officials say.
Major General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, who commands the Polish-led force in the area, said the attacks were co-ordinated and meant to do much harm.
Blasts hit the mayor's office and two bases used by coalition forces on the university campus.
Seven Iraqi civilians and police were killed and 80 injured, doctors said.
Bulgaria's Defence Ministry said four Bulgarian soldiers were among the dead, while 27 of its servicemen sustained injuries in Saturday's car bomb and mortar attacks.
The other two dead soldiers are believed to be from Thailand.
Karbala is a holy Shia city south of the capital Baghdad. Several nations have troops operating there, including Poland, Bulgaria, Thailand, the Philippines and the US.
Five of the injured were said to be in a serious condition.
'Massive'
City governor Akram al-Yasseri was among those injured in the blasts, the French news agency AFP reported.
Major General Tyszkiewicz said on Polish TV that four car bombs had been used, as well as grenade-launchers and guns.
A rapid reaction force and 10 helicopters were sent to deal with them and the drivers of the cars were shot before they could enter the bases, he said.
"It was a co-ordinated, massive attack planned for a big scale and intended to do much harm," he added.
Earlier, US military officials said American soldiers had killed four Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul after coming under attack.
The soldiers were checking for roadside explosives devices when they were fired at with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
US troops in and around Mosul have repeatedly come under attack in recent weeks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3350995.stm
Blasts hit the mayor's office and two bases used by coalition forces on the university campus.
Seven Iraqi civilians and police were killed and 80 injured, doctors said.
Bulgaria's Defence Ministry said four Bulgarian soldiers were among the dead, while 27 of its servicemen sustained injuries in Saturday's car bomb and mortar attacks.
The other two dead soldiers are believed to be from Thailand.
Karbala is a holy Shia city south of the capital Baghdad. Several nations have troops operating there, including Poland, Bulgaria, Thailand, the Philippines and the US.
Five of the injured were said to be in a serious condition.
'Massive'
City governor Akram al-Yasseri was among those injured in the blasts, the French news agency AFP reported.
Major General Tyszkiewicz said on Polish TV that four car bombs had been used, as well as grenade-launchers and guns.
A rapid reaction force and 10 helicopters were sent to deal with them and the drivers of the cars were shot before they could enter the bases, he said.
"It was a co-ordinated, massive attack planned for a big scale and intended to do much harm," he added.
Earlier, US military officials said American soldiers had killed four Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul after coming under attack.
The soldiers were checking for roadside explosives devices when they were fired at with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
US troops in and around Mosul have repeatedly come under attack in recent weeks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3350995.stm
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4 coalition soldiers, 6 Iraqi police, 1 civilian killed; over 170 hurt
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:39 a.m. ET Dec. 27, 2003
KARBALA, Iraq - Armed with car bombs, mortars and machine guns, insurgents launched three coordinated attacks in the southern city of Karbala on Saturday, killing four coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and one civilian, military and hospital officials said.
At least 37 other coalition soldiers, including five Americans were injured, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt in Baghdad. Some 135 Iraqi civilians and police officers were also wounded, said Ali al-Arzawi, deputy head of Karbala General Hospital.
"It was a coordinated, massive attack planned for a big scale and intended to do much harm," said Maj. Gen. Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, head of the Polish-led multinational force responsible for security around Karbala. He gave a news conference at his headquarters at Camp Babylon that was carried on Polish television.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/12/27/3440750
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:39 a.m. ET Dec. 27, 2003
KARBALA, Iraq - Armed with car bombs, mortars and machine guns, insurgents launched three coordinated attacks in the southern city of Karbala on Saturday, killing four coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and one civilian, military and hospital officials said.
At least 37 other coalition soldiers, including five Americans were injured, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt in Baghdad. Some 135 Iraqi civilians and police officers were also wounded, said Ali al-Arzawi, deputy head of Karbala General Hospital.
"It was a coordinated, massive attack planned for a big scale and intended to do much harm," said Maj. Gen. Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, head of the Polish-led multinational force responsible for security around Karbala. He gave a news conference at his headquarters at Camp Babylon that was carried on Polish television.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/12/27/3440750
Two more American soldiers have been killed in separate attacks in Iraq.
The first occurred in Baghdad, when an explosion killed a US soldier and two Iraqi children.
In the second attack, a US soldier was killed and three others wounded when their patrol was blown up near the town of Falluja, west of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, five more Iraqis and a Bulgarian soldier have died of their injuries following Saturday's attacks in Karbala, which initially killed 13.
Elsewhere, a leading Kurdish security official in northern Iraq was injured, and three of his bodyguards killed, when gunmen opened fire on him.
He was named as the deputy security chief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Major-General Jawamir Attiyah Kaki.
Attacks decreasing
Both attacks on US soldiers came when improvised roadside explosive devices were detonated as convoys were passing.
In Baghdad, a convoy of the US 2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment was blown up in the crowded Karrada district.
The bomb also injured five more US soldiers, their Iraqi interpreter and eight Iraqi civil defence personnel.
Later, troops from the 82nd Airborne Division were hit near Falluja, in the volatile "Sunni triangle" where resistance to coalition troops has been concentrated.
On Saturday, a number of almost simultaneous attacks with car bombs were staged in Karbala, targeting coalition military installations and a municipal building.
The initial death toll of 13 included four Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers serving with coalition forces.
But the BBC's Chris Hogg in Baghdad says attacks against coalition forces have been falling. There are now around 15 daily throughout Iraq, down from a peak of around 40 a day in November.
The leaders of Bulgaria and Thailand have said they will keep their troops in Iraq, despite Saturday's losses.
The Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, said the casualties must not reduce his country's support for international efforts against terrorism.
The Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, said Thailand would continue to work for humanitarian ends in Iraq, despite criticism of the deployment by Thai opposition politicians.
'Final closure'
Earlier on Sunday, the US-led coalition put a $1m bounty on the heads of a dozen of the "most wanted" Iraqis still at large.
Officials said 42 of the 55 on the list had been captured or killed.
Iraqi security and coalition forces hoped the new rewards would "bring a final closure to this search," the officials added.
A $10m reward has been offered for the capture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the man the US suspects of masterminding many attacks on coalition forces.
The images of the wanted Iraqi fugitives appear on a deck of cards of prepared by US intelligence before the March invasion to assist in the capture of Saddam Hussein's top officials.
The wanted men include the chief of the Republican Guard, the director of the Iraqi intelligence service and the man in charge of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards.
The administration is offering smaller rewards - which range from $2,500 to $250,00 - for help capturing others thought to be involved in attacks on coalition forces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3352769.stm
The first occurred in Baghdad, when an explosion killed a US soldier and two Iraqi children.
In the second attack, a US soldier was killed and three others wounded when their patrol was blown up near the town of Falluja, west of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, five more Iraqis and a Bulgarian soldier have died of their injuries following Saturday's attacks in Karbala, which initially killed 13.
Elsewhere, a leading Kurdish security official in northern Iraq was injured, and three of his bodyguards killed, when gunmen opened fire on him.
He was named as the deputy security chief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Major-General Jawamir Attiyah Kaki.
Attacks decreasing
Both attacks on US soldiers came when improvised roadside explosive devices were detonated as convoys were passing.
In Baghdad, a convoy of the US 2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment was blown up in the crowded Karrada district.
The bomb also injured five more US soldiers, their Iraqi interpreter and eight Iraqi civil defence personnel.
Later, troops from the 82nd Airborne Division were hit near Falluja, in the volatile "Sunni triangle" where resistance to coalition troops has been concentrated.
On Saturday, a number of almost simultaneous attacks with car bombs were staged in Karbala, targeting coalition military installations and a municipal building.
The initial death toll of 13 included four Bulgarian and two Thai soldiers serving with coalition forces.
But the BBC's Chris Hogg in Baghdad says attacks against coalition forces have been falling. There are now around 15 daily throughout Iraq, down from a peak of around 40 a day in November.
The leaders of Bulgaria and Thailand have said they will keep their troops in Iraq, despite Saturday's losses.
The Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, said the casualties must not reduce his country's support for international efforts against terrorism.
The Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, said Thailand would continue to work for humanitarian ends in Iraq, despite criticism of the deployment by Thai opposition politicians.
'Final closure'
Earlier on Sunday, the US-led coalition put a $1m bounty on the heads of a dozen of the "most wanted" Iraqis still at large.
Officials said 42 of the 55 on the list had been captured or killed.
Iraqi security and coalition forces hoped the new rewards would "bring a final closure to this search," the officials added.
A $10m reward has been offered for the capture of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the man the US suspects of masterminding many attacks on coalition forces.
The images of the wanted Iraqi fugitives appear on a deck of cards of prepared by US intelligence before the March invasion to assist in the capture of Saddam Hussein's top officials.
The wanted men include the chief of the Republican Guard, the director of the Iraqi intelligence service and the man in charge of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards.
The administration is offering smaller rewards - which range from $2,500 to $250,00 - for help capturing others thought to be involved in attacks on coalition forces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3352769.stm
A roadside bomb explosion in Falluja has killed one US occupation soldier and wounded three others, following twin blasts in Baghdad in which another soldier and three Iraqi children were killed.
In a statement, the US army said the soldier was killed when a roadside bomb was detonated as their convoy drove near the town west of Baghdad.
Earlier, in the town of Arbil, the deputy security chief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the former rebel faction ruling Arbil, was wounded and his three bodyguards killed in an ambush outside his home, police said on Sunday.
The KDP number two security official Jawamir Attiyah Kaki was taken to hospital, said Arbil's police chief Nariman Abd al-Hamid.
"It happened at 8:25 am (05:25 GMT) in the morning as he was leaving his home in the Runaki district in the south of the city.
Assailants opened fire with automatic weapons, wounding him and killing his three bodyguards," Abd al-Hamid said.
Twin explosions
Captain Jason Beck, a spokesman for the US First Armoured Division, said five US soldiers, eight members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded in the Baghdad explosions, which occurred in a busy shopping district.
"One soldier was killed and five wounded in a double IED (improvised explosive device) blast," the spokesman said.
The wounded were taken to a hospital, but no further details were available, he said.
The latest death raises to 212 the number of US soldiers killed in action since US President George Bush declared major hostilities over on 1 May.
Meanwhile, a fifth Bulgarian soldier died of his wounds, following an attack on occupation troops on Saturday in the town of Karbala. Two Thai soldiers died in the same attack.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/13864310-805A-4767-A84F-53D8E878E1DE.htm
In a statement, the US army said the soldier was killed when a roadside bomb was detonated as their convoy drove near the town west of Baghdad.
Earlier, in the town of Arbil, the deputy security chief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the former rebel faction ruling Arbil, was wounded and his three bodyguards killed in an ambush outside his home, police said on Sunday.
The KDP number two security official Jawamir Attiyah Kaki was taken to hospital, said Arbil's police chief Nariman Abd al-Hamid.
"It happened at 8:25 am (05:25 GMT) in the morning as he was leaving his home in the Runaki district in the south of the city.
Assailants opened fire with automatic weapons, wounding him and killing his three bodyguards," Abd al-Hamid said.
Twin explosions
Captain Jason Beck, a spokesman for the US First Armoured Division, said five US soldiers, eight members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded in the Baghdad explosions, which occurred in a busy shopping district.
"One soldier was killed and five wounded in a double IED (improvised explosive device) blast," the spokesman said.
The wounded were taken to a hospital, but no further details were available, he said.
The latest death raises to 212 the number of US soldiers killed in action since US President George Bush declared major hostilities over on 1 May.
Meanwhile, a fifth Bulgarian soldier died of his wounds, following an attack on occupation troops on Saturday in the town of Karbala. Two Thai soldiers died in the same attack.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/13864310-805A-4767-A84F-53D8E878E1DE.htm
12/28/2003
The number of U.S. service members killed and wounded in Iraq has more than doubled in the past four months compared with the four months preceding them, according to Pentagon statistics.
From Sept. 1 through Friday, 145 service members were killed in action in Iraq, compared with 65 from May 1 to Aug. 30. The two four-month intervals cover counterinsurgency operations, far costlier than major combat operations, which President Bush declared over on May 1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34702-2003Dec27.html
The number of U.S. service members killed and wounded in Iraq has more than doubled in the past four months compared with the four months preceding them, according to Pentagon statistics.
From Sept. 1 through Friday, 145 service members were killed in action in Iraq, compared with 65 from May 1 to Aug. 30. The two four-month intervals cover counterinsurgency operations, far costlier than major combat operations, which President Bush declared over on May 1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34702-2003Dec27.html
US President George W. Bush, carrying pet dog Barney, salutes as emerges from Air Force One at TSTC Airport in Waco, Texas.
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Tony Blair has come under renewed pressure to admit he was mistaken on the issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)
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