Politics > Politics-USA > "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 10.28.2003
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"Tom Jefferson" |
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28 Oct 2003 09:17:28 PM |
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 10.28.2003 |
Admiral Kelly, Captain Card (ph), officers and sailors of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
http://www.milparts.net/bush-on-uss-lincoln.html
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Car Bomb Kills Four in Fallujah, Iraq
Tue Oct 28, 5:13 PM ET
By TAREK AL-ISSAWI, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday west of Baghdad, killing at
least four people a day after three dozen people died in a wave of suicide
bombings in the Iraqi capital. U.S. officials said one of Baghdad's three
deputy mayors was killed in a hit-and-run shooting.
The latest attacks, including the killing Sunday of Deputy Mayor Faris Abdul
Razzaq al-Assam, raised fears that a strengthened insurgency is increasingly
targeting Iraqis who work with the U.S.-led coalition as well as
international groups that had considered themselves at less risk than U.S.
soldiers.
Despite the escalation in attacks on Iraqis, American forces remained
targets, with insurgents firing on a U.S. military base and convoy in two
northern cities Tuesday.
In Baghdad, a rocket-propelled grenade attack killed one U.S. soldier and
wounded six others while they were trying to destroy roadside bombs, the
U.S. military said Tuesday.
The soldiers, from the 1st Armored Division, were attacked Monday, the same
day a team of suicide car bombers devastated the Red Cross headquarters and
three police stations, killing three dozen people and wounding more than
200.
In Tikrit, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown, insurgents opened
fire late Tuesday on the southern gate of the main U.S. military base,
wounding at least one American soldier from the 4th Infantry Division,
witnesses said. A patrol was sent out to search for the assailants, who
soldiers said apparently fired from a nearby rooftop.
And a U.S. military convoy was attacked Tuesday night by small arms fire in
the northern city of Mosul, the military said. There were no casualties.
In Fallujah, a flashpoint Sunni Muslim city 40 miles west of Baghdad, a car
exploded Tuesday afternoon on a major street, killing at least four people.
The explosion occurred about 100 yards from a police station and 100 feet
from a school, but the target was unclear.
Later Tuesday, eight huge explosions were heard after sundown from the
southern area of Fallujah. U.S. officials in Baghdad said they were unaware
of the blasts, which residents described as "deafening."
In Baghdad, at least three mortar shells exploded late Tuesday in the
Jadriya district across the Tigris River from the palace headquarters of the
U.S.-led coalition, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate word on
casualties or damage.
Coalition officials reported little progress in determining who was behind
Monday's car bombings in Baghdad.
A fifth would-be suicide bomber, who was caught Monday before he could
detonate his explosives, told police he was Syrian, according to a coalition
official. Investigators were trying to confirm his nationality, the official
said on condition of anonymity.
President Bush blamed both loyalists to Saddam and foreign terrorists for
the attacks in and around Baghdad, including a rocket barrage on a hotel
Sunday that killed a U.S. lieutenant colonel and wounded 18 other people.
Bush told a news conference Tuesday that "basically what they're trying to
do is cause people to run."
A coalition spokesman, Charles Heatly, told the British Broadcasting Corp.,
"there certainly are indications that there are foreign terrorists who are
coming into Iraq," but he did not explicitly accuse them of responsibility.
Britain's special representative in Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, also said
Tuesday that foreign terrorists could be entering Iraq from Afghanistan and
elsewhere.
The use of suicide bombings in Monday's attacks "is a sign of foreign
terrorist tactics, rather than the Saddam loyalist elements that we are
still trying to chase down," Greenstock told BBC.
The car bombing in Fallujah was the first in the city, a center of
resistance to the U.S. occupation.
Tawfiq Mijbel, who was badly wounded by shrapnel from the car bombing, said
he was driving directly behind the vehicle that exploded. "It stopped in
front of the power company. A man got out, while another stayed in the car.
A few seconds later it blew up," Mijbel said from his hospital bed.
Khamis Mijbal, who owns a shop opposite the spot where the car blew up, said
the blast produced a massive ball of fire and debris flew in all directions.
The school was closed, but police said one body was found inside. Police
Col. Jalal Sabri said all the victims appeared to have been bystanders.
Sabri said at least four people were dead but the number could reach six.
The count was difficult because some victims were dismembered, he said.
The slain deputy Baghdad mayor, al-Assam, was "shot in a hit-and-run
incident" Sunday, said Tom Basile, a coalition spokesman. Basile said he had
no information that any suspects were apprehended.
Resistance forces have assassinated or attempted to assassinate several
figures allied with the occupation. The most prominent was Aquila
al-Hashimi, a member of the Governing Council, who was fatally shot Sept.
20.
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Associated Press writers Tarek al-Issawi in Fallujah, Katarina Kratovac in
Tkrit and Mariam Fam in Mosul contributed to this report.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20031028/ap_on
_re_mi_ea/iraq
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Search in Iraq Fails to Find Nuclear Threat
No Evidence Uncovered Of Reconstituted Program
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 26, 2003
[snip]
According to records made available to The Washington Post and interviews
with arms investigators from the United States, Britain and Australia, it
did not require a comprehensive survey to find the central assertions of the
Bush administration's prewar nuclear case to be insubstantial or untrue.
Although Hussein did not relinquish his nuclear ambitions or technical
records, investigators said, it is now clear he had no active program to
build a weapon, produce its key materials or obtain the technology he needed
for either.
[cont.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17707-2003Oct25?language=printer
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