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1/31/04: 18 Ulooj, Collaborators Saddamized, 44 Wounded |
More Ulooj sent to the great bacon factory in the sky...
Iraq Attacks Kill 15 Iraqis, Three U.S. Soldiers
By Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of explosions across Iraq killed at
least 18 people on Saturday as the United States predicted an upturn of
violence ahead of a Muslim holiday.
Guerrillas killed nine in a car bomb blast in the northern city of Mosul, a
separate bomb killed three U.S. soldiers north of Baghdad and at least six
were killed in a pair of explosions in a crowded residential area of the
capital. U.S. military officials have warned of the possibility of more
violence against U.S. forces and those seen as cooperating with them ahead
of the Feast of the Sacrifice, given that guerrillas have often struck on
significant dates.
"We heard the blast and saw that the deceased was missing," said Ali Muzan
at the scene of the second late evening blast in Baghdad. "He died on the
way to the hospital.
The explosion was in the same Baladiyyat district of Baghdad where an
earlier blast killed at least five civilians, according to hospital
sources.
Earlier in the day, police and hospital officials in Mosul, 390 km (240
miles) north of Baghdad, said 44 people were wounded by the car bomb
outside a police station. Debris was scattered 300 meters (yards) away and
body parts littered the scorched ground.
Thick smoke billowed from blazing vehicles and windows across a wide radius
were shattered. U.S. officers said there were no U.S. casualties.
The U.S. military said three U.S. soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb
blew up next to a convoy traveling between Kirkuk and Tikrit, the hometown
of ousted leader Saddam Hussein 175 km north of Baghdad.
The deaths brought to 364 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action
since the start of the Iraq war last March. Including non-combat deaths,
the toll is 522.
Soldiers and policemen in Baghdad gave conflicting accounts of the first
blast in Baghdad's Baladiyyat district, some saying it was mortar fire and
others rockets. A father and son who ran a kiosk nearby were killed,
sources at a hospital said.
Guerrillas have often struck on significant dates -- a car bomb destroyed a
Baghdad restaurant on New Year's Eve, killing eight, and on October 27, the
first day of Ramadan, coordinated suicide attacks in Baghdad killed at
least 35.
Despite the violence, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said experts
will arrive within days to assess the feasibility of elections before a
June 30 deadline for the handover of sovereignty from the U.S.-led
coalition to an Iraqi government.
All but a few U.N. international staff left Iraq last year after suicide
attacks on its headquarters in Baghdad, including one on August 19 that
killed 22 people, among whom was head of mission Sergio Vieira de Mello.
The U.N. electoral team will spend several weeks traveling the country to
assess how possible it would be to hold a free and fair national poll.
U.S. authorities in Iraq have said they will listen to U.N.
recommendations, but the head of the Iraqi Governing Council, Adnan
Pachachi, said on Saturday no one would necessarily be bound by any advice
the U.N. offers.
"The U.N. will make recommendations, not decisions," he told a news
conference. "It's only a recommendation, we have the right to accept or
reject it, and to make the final decision."
The United Nations is returning at Washington's request, after U.S. plans
for the handover of sovereignty were rejected by Iraq's leading Shi'ite
cleric.
The initial plan was for regional caucuses to select a transitional
assembly by the end of May. The assembly would then pick a government to
take over sovereignty by end-June.
But Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, revered by much of Iraq's 60 percent Shi'ite
majority, has said the new government should be directly elected.
Washington, and many members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council,
say that is not possible as there are no voter rolls and security remains
precarious.
Separately, Iraq said it would attend security talks with neighboring
states in Kuwait mid-February, opening a chapter in diplomatic and
international ties. (Additional reporting by C. Bryson Hull in Tikrit,
Michael Georgy and Fiona O'Brien in Baghdad)
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