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"Jeffrey Turner" |
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12 Sep 2004 09:29:25 PM |
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Over 100 killed across Iraq |
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7946C494-E2FA-4B3A-87E8-7BA549324484.htm
Over 100 killed across Iraq
Monday 13 September 2004, 3:56 Makka Time, 0:56 GMT
At least 110 people were killed across Iraq in a sharp
escalation of anti-US forces violence that saw gun battles, car
bombs and bombardments.
The Health Ministry on Sunday said the worst casualties were in
Baghdad, where 37 were killed, and in Tal Afar near the Syrian
border where 51 people died.
The capital suffered at least seven car bombs, and fighters
fired a dozen mortar bombs or rockets around the so-called Green
Zone compound housing the US embassy and the
Washington-appointed interim government.
It was one of the heaviest barrages in Baghdad for months.
"We've seen a tremendous increase in the number of attacks,"
said Brigadier General Erv Lessel, a US military spokesman.
Witnesses and officials said 13 people were killed and 61
wounded in fierce battles in central Baghdad.
Crowd hit
A US helicopter opened fire on a crowd milling around an
abandoned armoured vehicle, killing a television journalist
reporting from the scene.
The military said two helicopters were sent in "to prevent
looting and harm to the Iraqi people" after four US soldiers
were lightly wounded in the attack on the Bradley.
Reuters Television images showed Iraqis running for cover
shortly before a blast felled Mazin Tumaizi, a producer with
Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV.
The Palestinian died soon afterwards. Reuters cameraman Saif
Fuad, recording the scene, was also wounded in the blast.
"I looked at the sky and saw a helicopter at very low altitude,"
Fuad said. "Just moments later I saw a flash of light from the
Apache. Then a strong explosion," he said.
"Mazin's blood was on my camera and face," Fuad said from his
hospital bed. He said his friend screamed at him for help:
"Saif, Saif! I'm going to die. I'm going to die."
More attacks
US troops mounted a major offensive on Thursday in Tal Afar, a
suspected haven for anti-US fighters about 100km from Syria. The
military gave no immediate explanation for the heavy death toll
there.
In Ramadi, west of Baghdad, US tanks and helicopters fired on a
residential district, killing 10 Iraqis, including women and
children, a doctor said. The US military had no immediate
comment.
In other incidents, a car bomb killed a senior police officer,
another policeman and a 12-year-old boy on a highway west of
Baghdad.
Another bomber tried to drive through the gates of Abu Ghraib
prison but US troops shot and killed him, the military said.
Three people were wounded.
Reuters
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