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Iraq
More murder to celebrate Ramadan
2003-10-29
EFL
Two US soldiers have been killed in an explosion north of Baghdad in the latest of series of attacks targeting US military posts and Iraqi police stations. And two Iraqis were killed when a police station in the northern city of Mosul was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, French news agency AFP reported. There were also two attacks on US forces in Kirkuk. A military post was reportedly hit by several rockets - although no-one was said to have been injured - and a dry cleaning shop used by US troops was also attacked. Coalition troops in Iraq face around 20 to 25 attacks everyday but BBC correspondent Jill McGivering in Baghdad says Tuesday night’s barrage was particularly intense.

In other overnight incidents:

A series of explosions - possibly from mortar bombs - rock Baghdad overnight, but there are no immediate reports of injuries

One US soldier is wounded in Tikrit after gunmen open fire on a military base, eyewitnesses tell the Associated Press news agency

An Iraqi journalist is shot dead, also in Tikrit, by unknown gunmen as he worked in his office, reports say

Some observers say the violence is deliberately timed to coincide with the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. And many Iraqis are increasingly blaming foreign fighters and Iraqi groups loyal to Saddam Hussein for the recent suicide attacks, our correspondent adds.
Thanks, BBC. Better late than never...
Posted by:Bulldog

#4  What a nice excuse to blame resistance on 'foreign fighters', so we shall believe every suicidal jihadi maniac rushed to Iraq to land in the womb of the 40 virgins while the normal Iraqi population are kissing the feet of their American “liberators”, truly convincing!

After having been under Saddam's thumb the past thirty years or so, I'm sure the locals are just clamoring for the return of Saddam's "paradise".
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-10-29 11:12:58 AM  

#3  And many Iraqis are increasingly blaming foreign fighters and Iraqi groups loyal to Saddam Hussein for the recent suicide attacks, our correspondent adds.


Yes Murat, the BBC does American bidding, as usual! Or as the BBC normally likes to say, FREE OCALAN NOW.
Posted by: BMN   2003-10-29 9:50:03 AM  

#2  It's raisins not virgins.
Posted by: Paul   2003-10-29 9:44:34 AM  

#1  What a nice excuse to blame resistance on 'foreign fighters', so we shall believe every suicidal jihadi maniac rushed to Iraq to land in the womb of the 40 virgins while the normal Iraqi population are kissing the feet of their American “liberators”, truly convincing!
Posted by: Murat   2003-10-29 9:40:01 AM  

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