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Iraq violence takes more lives
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/07/08 11:17  Shanghai Daily

  Iraq's cascade of violence has claimed more American lives, with a bomb attack on a US military convoy in Baghdad early yesterday and the shooting death of another US soldier on patrol late on Sunday night. Three American soldiers have been killed in attacks in the capital in a 24-hour period.

  Early yesterday, insurgents threw a homemade bomb at a US convoy in northern Baghdad, killing a soldier, said a spokesman for the US military. Late on Sunday, two assailants fired on another US military convoy, killing another soldier. Troops returned fire, killing one of the attackers and wounding the other.

  The wounded suspect was taken into custody.

  Meanwhile, four US soldiers were wounded after attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their convoy in the restive Western town of Ramadi late on Sunday, the military said. One Iraqi suspect was killed and another wounded in the attack.

  Tension has been ratcheted up in the town since a bomb blast on Saturday killed seven Iraqi police recruits as they graduated from a US-taught training course.

  Dozens more were injured.

  The US military blamed the attack on pro-Saddam Hussein insurgents seeking to target those working with the Americans, but many in Ramadi said they thought the Americans themselves were behind the incident.

  Ramadi, 95 kilometers west of Baghdad, one of several Sunni-majority towns along the Euphrates River west of Baghdad, was a stronghold of support for Saddam, and has been the site of frequent attacks that have killed Americans as well as Iraqis.

  Both of the American soldiers killed in Baghdad were from the Army's 1st Armored Division, the Germany-based division which is charged with occupying the Iraqi capital.

  In a third deadly attack, an assailant shot and killed a US soldier waiting to buy a soft drink at Baghdad University at midday on Sunday, firing once into his head from close range. The style was coldly similar to the killing of a young British freelance cameraman, who was shot in the head outside a Baghdad museum on Saturday.

  The death of the British cameraman and a grenade attack on a UN compound raised concern that Iraq's worsening insurgency - until now targeting only coalition troops and Iraqis accused of US collaboration - will spread to Westerners in general.

  US troops on patrol in Baghdad and other areas have been attacked several times a day, and Iraqi police and civilians perceived to be working with the occupying forces also have been targeted.

  US Army Major William Thurmond said it was too early to tell whether a pattern was emerging that would suggest insurgents are targeting foreign civilians, but he said such a strategy could thwart news gathering and humanitarian relief efforts.




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