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DJ Two US Soldiers Killed By Rocket Attack In Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP)--Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six troops wounded in a rocket attack west of Baghdad, a U.S. military official said Sunday.

The attack occurred Saturday evening near the town of Fallujah, where anti-U.S. rebels are active, the official said, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

He said he had no other details.

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Reported events over the last 2 days in Iraq.

03/22/04 AP: 13 British Soldiers Wounded By Explosions In Southern Iraq
Thirteen British soldiers were wounded Monday by two explosions in the southern Iraqi city of Basra during a demonstration, officials said.

03/22/04 TheAustralian: Car bomb kills two Iraqis near US base
A CAR bomb blew up near a US Air Force base north of Baghdad today, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding 25 others, an Iraqi Civil Defence Corps official said.

03/22/04 IHT: 4 Iraqis die as rockets strike near U.S. base
Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a rocket attack on a posh Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday, U.S. military officials said.

03/22/04 Reuters: Two Finnish businessmen shot dead in Baghdad
Two Finnish businessmen on a trip to Iraq were shot dead by sniper fire in Baghdad on Monday, the foreign ministry said.

03/21/04 Centcom: Soldier Killed In Explosive Attack
A Task Force 1st Armored Division Soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed and three other Soldiers were wounded during an IED attack March 21.

03/21/04 Centcom: 1st Infantry Division Soldier Killed in Accident Confirmed
1st Infantry Division soldier was killed during a pre-patrol test firing in preparation for a mission near Samarra.

03/21/04 Centcom: Electrocution Death in Ba'qubah Confirmed
A First Infantry Division Soldier was electrocuted while working on communications equipment at Forward Operating Base Comanche north of Baqubah March 19 at approximately 2 p.m.

03/21/04 AP: 1st Infantry Division Soldier Killed Sunday In An Apparent Accident
A 1st Infantry Division soldier was also killed Sunday in an apparent accident during a weapons firing exercise in Samarra... Army spokeswoman Maj. Debra Stewart said.

03/21/04 AP: Policeman Killed, 2 Wounded
A bomb exploded at a police station in Khalis, north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding two.

03/21/04 Reuters: Roadside bomb in Mosul wounds one Iraqi civilian
In other attacks on Sunday, a bomb exploded at a police station in Khalis, north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding two. A roadside bomb intended for a U.S. convoy hurt a municipal worker in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

03/21/04 AP: 3 Mortar Rounds Explode In Baghdad; Killing One Iraqi
Two mortar rounds landed in the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition on Sunday, a U.S. official said, while a third round landed on a street outside the compound, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding eight.

03/21/04 AP: Two US Soldiers Killed By Rocket Attack In Iraq
Insurgents fired a rocket overnight at American troops near Fallujah in western Iraq, killing two soldiers. The attack also wounded five soldiers and a sailor.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
 
Mass grave found in Iraq's southeast marsh region

A grave containing the bodies of 15 men and two women has been found in Iraq's southeast marshlands, home to the Shiite Marsh Arab ethnic community, a spokesman for a leading militia said on Monday.

"These people were killed in 1996 in fighting between people living in the marshes and the Iraqi army. The mass grave was found with the help of relatives who had come from abroad," said Badr Organisation spokesman Saad Hussein.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_634240,0005.htm
 
UK troops hurt in Iraq blasts

Fourteen UK soldiers have been injured by explosions during protests in Basra, Iraq, the Army has confirmed. None of the injuries is life-threatening, but three soldiers were seriously hurt in the incident on Monday.

British soldiers returned fire when a grenade and petrol bombs were thrown. Hundreds of demonstrators had been protesting over jobs with the new police and security forces, said the Army in Basra. The injured have been evacuated to the nearby Shaibah military hospital, by road and helicopter, and their families are being informed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3558431.stm

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Two Iraqi policemen killed in Kirkuk

Gunmen kill two Iraqi policemen in drive-by shooting at checkpoint in centre of northern oil city of Kirkuk.

KIRKUK, Iraq - Gunmen killed two Iraqi policemen and wounded two others in a drive-by shooting in the northern oil city of Kirkuk at dawn Tuesday, a senior police officer said.

Ali Kazem, 26, and his 23-year-old brother were shot dead at a checkpoint in the center of the city and two colleagues were seriously wounded, one of them losing an eye, Colonel Muness Ishak said.

"The attack was carried out when four men in a white car drove past the checkpoint and opened fire with machine guns, killing two policemen and injuring two others," Ishak said.

Police launched a search for the assailants.Earlier, two rockets were fired at Kirkuk airport, which houses a key US military base for the region. The attack occurred at midnight (2100 GMT) and huge columns of smoke were seen rising from the base, the city's police chief, General Turhan Yussef, said without elaborating.

Kirkuk has seen frequent attacks on police and paramilitaries working with the US-led coalition amid tensions between the city's now dominant Kurdish community and the ousted Sunni Arab elite.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9360
 
Two Finnish Businessmen Killed in Baghdad

Gunmen killed two Finnish businessmen as they drove in Baghdad on Monday, the latest foreign civilians to die in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion a year ago. The two Finns were killed near a highway underpass in west Baghdad, according to Iraqi witnesses. The victims' Iraqi driver was unhurt.

The Finns were part of a nine-person technological delegation visiting the Iraqi capital, said Markus Lyra, a Foreign Ministry official in Helsinki. "The men were on their way to the Ministry of Electricity to make business contacts as part of a larger group," he said. The assailants fled, and there were no reports of arrests.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040322/API/403220642&cachetime=5
 
Witnesses: Gunmen Kill Five Iraqi Police Trainees

MUSSAYAB, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed at least five Iraqi police trainees Tuesday as they headed to work in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, witnesses and hospital officials said.
Reuters Television footage showed a yellow minibus riddled with bullet holes, the seats splattered with blood.

Some sources said as many as nine men were killed, all of them training to join the new Iraqi police force. A Reuters cameraman saw five of the victims.

Local officials said the minibus came under fire from another car shortly after leaving the nearby town of Mussayab on its way to Hilla. Staff at Mussayab General Hospital said three other trainees were still in hospital.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4633050
 
03/23/04 NNN: Iraqi Judge Killed
a Iraqi judge was killed when his car blew up over the weekend in the city of Hilla, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad.

03/23/04 NNN: Iraqi paramilitary Killed, 8 Wounded
At least one Iraqi paramilitary was killed and eight civilians injured in an car bomb explosion on Monday at the entrance to a US base near Balad.

03/23/04 Guardian: Car Bomb Kills Driver
About 50 miles north of Baghdad, eight members of the new US-trained Iraqi Civil Defence Corps narrowly escaped death when a car bomb went off at an American base near Balad, killing the driver.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
 
Four killed as restive Iraqi town holds protest strike over Yassin killing

Shops, schools and public offices in Fallujah, west of Baghdad in the so-called Sunni Triangle where US forces regularly come under fire, observed a general strike to protest at Yassin's killing. The one-day strike was called by the local council president and religious leaders, who called on residents to pay their respects for the leader of the radical Palestinian movement by presenting condolences over three days at a mosque in the town.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=1276&e=3&u=/afp/20040323/wl_afp/iraq_us
 
Mines Charity does the US and UK's dirty work.

British charity clears a million Iraqi landmines

LONDON (Reuters) - A British-based anti-landmine charity says it has cleared more than one million mines and other explosives from Iraq since the United States declared the end of major conflict there last May.

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) said 1,000,106 items -- including anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, cluster bomblets, rockets and other unexploded ordnance -- had been cleared and destroyed around the northern cities of Arbil, Mosul, Kirkuk and Kifri.

"Every single item cleared is a life or limb saved, so a million items is a huge humanitarian achievement," said Salaam Mohammed Amin, MAG's technical field manager for the northern Iraqi region of Sulaimaniya, on Wednesday. "We've been working flat out to try and remove the danger as quickly as possible."

MAG, which has been working in Iraq since 1992, said its recent efforts had reduced the number of casualties from mine accidents in its target areas to pre-war levels. It now plans to expand its programme to other areas of the country.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=482141&section=news
 
Reports for 24/03/04

03/24/04 Reuters: Iraqi working for Time magazine shot in Baghdad
An Iraqi working for Time magazine in Baghdad was shot and critically wounded on Thursday, the magazine said, the latest casualty in a series of recent attacks on journalists and staff of media organisations.

03/24/04 Centcom: Four 1st Infantry Division Soldiers Wounded
Four 1st Infantry Division soldiers were injured in an accident involving two military vehicles near Tikrit on March 23.

03/24/04 TradeArabia: Iraq Oil Pipeline On Fire
Saboteurs set a liquefied petroleum gas pipeline in northern Iraq on fire earlier this week.

03/24/04 SundayTimes: Army Dog Survives 'Contract Killing'
An English springer spaniel with a talent for sniffing out guns, ammunition and explosives in Iraq has survived a suspected contract killing, a British newspaper reported today

03/24/04 Reuters: Gunmen kill local Iraqi police chief
Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi police chief on Wednesday, a day after nine policemen and trainees were killed in a drive-by shooting in the same town south of Baghdad, police said.

03/24/04 AFP: 2 Iraqi Civilians Killed, 6 Wounded By Mortar Rounds
Two Iraqi civilians were killed and six wounded when four mortar rounds slammed into a base being used by the new Iraqi army trained by the US-led coalition in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

03/24/04 AP: Insurgents Attack U.S. Convoy, Three Iraqis Dead
Insurgents attacked a U.S. military patrol west of Baghdad early Wednesday and an ensuing fight left three civilians dead and two U.S. soldiers injured, the U.S. military and Iraqi hospital officials said.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
 
Four Iraqi civilians including 2 year old child killed in US operation

GAZWAN, Iraq (AFX) - Four Iraqi civilians have been killed, including a two-year-old child, while four other children have been left wounded during a US operation in the central Iraqi village of Gazwan overnight, witnesses said.

Jamal Ali, a 35-year-old lawyer, told Agence France-Presse that US forces fired on the village - which lies about 80 km west of Baghdad - for around two hours. "Four people were killed, a man, two women and a two-year-old child. Four other children were injured," he said.

Ali said livestock was also killed, three cars were wrecked and houses were damaged in the fighting, which began at about 1.30 am. He said the army later entered the village, searched all the houses and arrested 14 people.

A cousin of one of the victims, 50-year-old Fawaz Mohsan, gave a similar account. An AFP reporter witnessed the burial of the four people early this morning. It is unclear how the fighting began. US military officials said they are looking into the details of the report.

http://www.iii.co.uk/shares/?type=news&articleid=4933984&action=article
 
Insurgents bomb an oil well in northern Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq-AP -- An Iraqi oil-well fire blamed on terrorists is no longer burning. The fire raged for 24 hours before being put out last night.

The well, owned by Iraq's Northern Oil Company, was set on fire by an explosion. The local Civil Defense Corps chief in the city of Kirkuk (keer-KUK') says it's the first time an oil well has been attacked there. Rebels have previously targeted Iraqi oil pipelines, both in the north and south.

http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?Par...huib00.xml&NewsSection=InternationalHeadlines
 
News and reports from 25/03/04

03/25/04 PAP: One Polish Soldier Wounded
One polish soldier is wounded (hand) about 30 km north from Al Hilla, booby-trap bomb explosion, polish military car is disabled

03/25/04 AP: U.S. - 350 Iraq Police Killed in Past Year
Some 350 U.S.-trained Iraqi police have been killed in the past year, and rebel attacks will likely increase before the coalition hands over sovereignty on June 30, the U.S. military said Thursday.

03/25/04 Guardian: Bomb suspects 'attacked by Iraqi mob'
An Iraqi mob set upon two suspected terrorists following a car bombing in Basra.

03/25/04 TheAustralian: Three Iraqi bodies found in Amman
THE bodies of three Iraqis killed by gunfire have been discovered in a building in central Amman, Jordanian police said Thursday.

03/25/04 Champlainchanne: 2 Guard Members Injured In Iraq
Two members of a Hillsboro-based Army National Guard unit have been reported injured in Iraq in an explosion

03/25/04 Reuters: U.S. Marine Killed, Two Wounded in Iraq Attack
A U.S. Marine was killed and two wounded Thursday in an attack on their convoy east of the restive Iraqi town of Falluja, a U.S. military spokesman said.

03/25/04 AFP: One US soldier killed, two wounded in Iraqi town of Baquba
One US soldier was killed and two were wounded when their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in the central Iraqi town of Baquba, a US military spokeswoman said.

03/25/04 Reuters: U.S. Soldier Killed in Attack North of Baghdad
A U.S. soldier was killed and another was injured in a gun battle north of Baghdad after their patrol was attacked by insurgents, the American military said on Thursday.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
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Witnesses report fighting in city west of Baghdad

Residents say U-S troops and Iraqi insurgents fought today in the center of the city, which is west of Baghdad. Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard. Witnesses say shooting erupted when U-S Marines moved into the center of the city.

American troops rarely venture into downtown Fallujah, one of the most dangerous areas in Iraq for the U-S military.

http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?Par...i1580a.xml&NewsSection=InternationalHeadlines
 
US loses out in Iraq wheat tussle

The Australian Wheat Board has beaten the Americans by winning a tender to Iraq for 460,000 tonnes. The sale will help to overcome fears that it could lose out to the United States in post-war Iraq.

The order comes under the United Nations oil-for-food programme and this contract will be the last offered to wheat producers. From 1 April, the Iraq Grains Board will take over wheat contracts, members of which visited Canberra this week.

Australia became Iraq's largest wheat supplier after the 1991 Gulf War, when Baghdad closed its doors to American wheat. Iraq had cut its wheat imports from Australia by almost half, following Canberra's support for the US position on Iraq, and was reported to be seeking fresh supplies from France.

The AWB, the country's main wheat exporter, said Iraq had reduced its order for 2003 by 44%. Fears had grown in Australia of greater competition from the United States last week when US wheat exporters returned to Iraq for the first time since the early 1990s. They sold 160,000 tonnes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3571545.stm
 
Several dead after clashes in Falluja

Eight Iraqi civilian are dead, including three children, after running battles between US occupation forces and resistance fighters in the town of Falluja.

According to hospital sources, a further 25 people were wounded in the Friday clashes.

Issam Mohammed, a doctor at the main Falluja hospital, said the wounded also included women and old people.

Several explosions echoed through the streets, which were deserted apart from ambulances and US military vehicles.

A mosque loudspeaker broadcast the call to Friday prayers, but residents had to stay huddled in their homes.

US troops turned back reporters trying to reach the town, where explosions and heavy gunfire could be heard from the outskirts.

Falluja, about 60km (37 miles) west of Baghdad, has been known for its fierce hostility to the US-led occupation.

The US military had no immediate word on the fighting in the town.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5E577573-4EB8-47D6-A4F3-136D25373454.htm
 
The third paragraph down in this (bold text) reminds me of the kind of thing Ive read about what they said in Vietnam.......

18 die in Iraq fighting

Bombings and shootings across Iraq have left 18 people dead, including a US Marine and a cameraman killed in fierce fighting between American forces and guerrillas armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in a town west of Baghdad. In the centre of the capital, a bomb exploded on a street as a convoy of sports utility vehicles passed, wounding five Iraqis, US Army Lt. Col. Peter Jones said.

It was not clear who was in the cars. US troops sealed off the area after the blast. In the town of Fallujah, about 35 miles west of Baghdad, seven marines were also wounded, beside the one killed, in clashes yesterday, a US spokesman in Baghdad said.

The marines and guerrillas fought for hours in the alleyways of the city, which has resisted American efforts to pacify it since the ousting of Saddam Hussein a year ago. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force issued a statement saying it was "conducting offensive operations to foster a secure and stable environment for the people."

It went on to say that "some have chosen to fight. Having elected their fate, they are being engaged and destroyed." A freelance cameraman for the US network ABC television, Burhan Mohammed Mazhour, 34, was shot in the head and killed while filming the clashes. It was unclear who was responsible for the shot that killed him.

"He died of gunshot wounds while covering a firefight in Fallujah. We are trying to confirm all the details surrounding his death and have asked the US military for an investigation," ABC News President David Westin said in a statement from New York. Witnesses said Mazhour and other journalists were taking cover behind a wall, with the marines in front and the insurgents behind.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_903976.html?menu=
 
Roadside bomb goes off in Baghdad

At least one person has been injured after a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Saturday morning, badly damaging a vehicle. The blast occurred as two four-wheel-drive vehicles were travelling down a street in the centre of the city.

Guerrillas have regularly planted roadside bombs to target US soldiers and foreigners working in Iraq. The incident comes a day after a US marine and at least five Iraqis were killed during fighting in Falluja.


"At 0730 am (0430 GMT) an explosive device went off as a civilian car drove down Abu Nawas street" on the banks of the Tigris River, Lieutenant Mohammad al-Kilani is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency. "The explosives had been placed on the edge of the sidewalk by unknown individuals," the officer said.

It is not clear who was in the cars. US troops sealed off the area after the blast.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3573985.stm
 
Rocket attack kills one in north Iraq

Sat 27 March, 2004 09:41 - MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents have fired two rockets at Mosul city hall, killing one civilian and injuring six other people including a child, police in the northern Iraqi city say. Colonel Shamil Ahmad, head of the city hall police department, said the rockets hit walls outside the hall at around 11:20 a.m. (8:20 a.m. British time). A child, two policemen and three other civilians were injured in the attack.

He said at least three unidentified individuals launched two Katyusha rockets from a locally made rocket launcher. Police found the launcher nearby. No one was arrested.

Earlier on Saturday, a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad, badly damaging a vehicle and injuring at least one passenger, witnesses said. Gunfire rang out immediately after the blast, which was strong enough to smash windows in nearby houses. There was blood on the front seats of the large four-wheel drive vehicle, similar to those used by the U.S. military and foreign security firms.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=483954&section=news
 
BRITONS FEARED KILLED

Two foreigners - thought to be British civilians - have been killed in an attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Witnesses said the bodies of two men, apparently with bullet wounds, were lying in the street beside their burned-out vehicle nearly an hour after the attack.

"These were British civilians working at the Mosul East power station," an unnamed Iraqi technician told Reuters. "They were on their way to the power station in two cars when they came under fire from attackers with AK-47s. One vehicle was hit," he said. Witnesses said three other foreigners, also apparently British, were at the power station after the shooting.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13032352,00.html
 
U.S.-led coalition shuts down Iraqi paper

The U.S.-led coalition on Sunday shut down a weekly newspaper run by followers of a hardline Shiite Muslim cleric, saying its articles were increasing the threat of violence against occupation forces. Hours after the closure of Al-Hawza, more than 1,000 supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrated peacefully in front of the newspaper's offices, decrying what they called a crackdown on freedom of expression.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/03/28/iraqi_paper/index_np.html
 
I presume this is the piece John Simpson was involved in for the BBC

Iraq 'Friendly Fire' Tragedy Blamed on U.S. Marine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The worst U.S. "friendly fire" incident of the Iraq war has been blamed on a Marine captain who called fighter jets to strike suspected Iraqi positions last March, unaware that dozens of Marines were fighting in the area, defense officials said on Sunday.

Ten Marines were killed and three wounded in the incident near the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya and an investigation report, to be released on Monday by the U.S. Central Command, said the dead were so shot up by both Iraqis and A-10 Air Force jets that it was almost impossible to determine exactly how they died.

But the year-long probe by an 11-member U.S. military team concluded that actions by the unidentified Marine captain, a ground-based air controller, directly resulted in the confused incident during the firefight on March 23, 2003.

It recommended that the officer receive some type of administrative discipline, but stipulated that "he didn't act with any negligence or reckless disregard," one of the defense officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. "It was a very ugly scene on the ground -- just a terrible thing in the heat of battle," said another defense official.

Marine Corps officials, who spent the weekend discussing the report with the families of Marines involved, declined to comment except to say that no action had been taken against the ground controller because the report had not yet been released.

Investigators found that the captain was in the city of Nassiriya at the time, could not see the action in a barren area near a canal and should have consulted his battalion commander, who would have known that U.S. troops were in the strike area. But the report said he had been cleared by his immediate commander to call in air power.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4679780&section=news
 
Gunmen Attack Convoy of Iraqi Minister, Killing 3 Guards

Iraq's public works minister has escaped an assassination attempt near the northern city of Mosul. Iraqi police and the U.S.-led coalition say unidentified gunmen fired on Sunday on the convoy carrying Minister Nasrin Barwari, killing three of her bodyguards and wounding a fourth. Ms. Barwari was unharmed in the attack. Ms. Barwari, who studied in the United States, belongs to a Kurdish political party.

Another woman on the Iraqi Governing Council, Akila al-Hashemi, was assassinated last September. Earlier Sunday, a British national and a Canadian citizen were killed in a drive-by shooting in Mosul.

Also, on Sunday, the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq announced it has shut down a popular Shi'ite Muslim newspaper after accusing it of inciting violence against American troops.
The editor of the weekly al-Hawza newspaper said dozens of American troops entered the facility and ordered the staff to leave before placing locks on the building.

A letter signed by U.S. civil administrator Paul Bremer accused the paper of publishing false articles that pose "a real threat of violence" against U.S. forces and those Iraqis who help in reconstruction projects. The closure sparked street protests in Baghdad, but no injuries were reported.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?...AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Mideast
 
4 Dead In Rocket Attack In Mosul, Iraq

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A rocket attack on a government building in Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, left at least four people dead and 19 wounded, the BBC reported on its Web site. According to the BBC, a doctor at a Mosul hospital said the dead included a 13-year-old girl.

The attack was on the provincial governor's office, but he wasn't there at the time, the report said. A rocket launcher was hidden inside a wooden cart that was wheeled up to a wall surrounding the three-story main government building, police Sgt. Jassim Mohammed said, according to The Associated Press. The assailants fled the area after the attack.

http://news.nasdaq.com/news/newsSto...ACQDJON200403271338DOWJONESDJONLINE000006.htm
 
Iraqi guerrillas fire at US military vehicle

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents have fired two rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S. military vehicle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, setting it on fire, witnesses have said. More blasts shook the wheeled Stryker armoured vehicle, apparently as its ammunition exploded. There was no immediate word on casualties in the attack in the west of the city.

A passer-by, Mahmoud Ibrahim, 40, said he had seen three attackers in a car fire an RPG at the Stryker as it went down a side street in a western district of Mosul on Sunday. Another RPG was fired at the U.S. vehicle moments later. "I saw the Stryker burning," he said. "I saw nobody getting out of the vehicle." U.S. troops in other Strykers sealed off the area.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=484410&section=news
 
Two boys killed after playing with shell

Two of six children playing with what was thought to be a dud shell died after it exploded Saturday in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, where Japanese troops on a reconstruction mission are based, a local hospital official said. The four other children were unhurt in the accident that took place at around 10 a.m. on the premises of a base where drills were conducted by the former Iraqi military.

http://www.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=42404&lang=en
 
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