3 US Soldiers Killed, 5 Wounded
2 Iraqis Killed, 27 Wounded
Informed Comment
Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion
Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
wire services report that guerrillas killed at least three US soldiers in separate attacks on Monday.
In Mosul, a guerrilla detonated his car bomb in front of a US military convoy, killing at least one US soldier and two Iraqis, and injuring 27 persons with the explosion and in small arms attacks afterwards. (Other guerrillas fired at the convoy from the mosque after the explosion, then disappeared).
In southern Baghdad, guerrillas fired rockets, killing two American troops and wounding five other US soldiers.
Loud explosions shook Baghdad once the sun went down.
In Heet (Hit), a western Iraqi city near Ramadi on the smuggling route to Syria, a major clash broke out between US troops and dozens of local guerrillas. In the course of striking at the guerrillas, the US damaged either a mosque or the shrine of Ali al-Hiti, which caught fire (press reports weren't clear what exactly was hit). Setting shrines and mosques on fire generally makes a bad impression among a Muslim public.
Az-Zaman reports an attack in Baqubah which, however, the US military has not confirmed at this writing.
There were also explosions in Fallujah. The city's elders had gone to Baghdad to negotiate an end to violence with interim Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan.
Guerrillas beheaded a Turk and an Iraqi Kurdish translator on Monday.
posted by Juan @ 10/12/2004 06:30:05 AM
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