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WORLD
THE BATTALION
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Thursday, October 30, 2003
U.S. reports escalation of Iraqi attacks
Red Cross to remain in Iraq with fewer staff, more security
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HAUNTED HOUSE
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By Robert H. Reid
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Insurgents destroyed an
American tank north of Baghdad,
killing two U.S. soldiers, and
wounded seven Ukrainians in the
first ambush against the multina
tional force patrolling central
Iraq, officials said Wednesday.
The attacks were part of a dra
matic upsurge in recent days.
U.S. policy in Iraq suffered
another setback when the interna
tional Red Cross announced it
was reducing its international
staff in the country, two days after
a deadly suicide car bombing at
its Baghdad headquarters. The
humanitarian group Medecins
Sans Frontieres, or Doctors
Without Borders, also announced
it had pulled out workers.
Secretary of State Colin
Powell had urged the Red Cross
and other nongovernment
organizations to stay in Iraq
because “if they are driven out,
then the terrorists win.”
Attacks on the rise
Attacks on coalition forces
jumped to an average of 33 a
day in the past week. Two U.S.
soldiers were killed when their
Abrams battle tank struck a land
mine or roadside bomb. Gunmen
ambushed seven Ukrainian
troops after two armored
personnel carriers hit land mines.
Two died as
U.S. Abrams
tank blew up
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Red Cross to cut back Iraq staff
The International Committee of the Red Cross has reconsidered
its deployment in Iraq following a wave of suicide bombings, one
of which killed two foreign employees at the agency’s Baghdad
headquarters.
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SOURCES: Associated Press; The International Committee of the Red Cross
AP
The Iraqi Governing
Council blamed the upsurge on
foreign fighters. The council
on Wednesday called on neigh
boring countries to crack down
on infiltrators crossing into
Iraq and provide Iraqi authori
ties with information about for
mer regime figures who may
be hiding on their soil, accord
ing to a statement carried by
the Arabic language television
statement Al-Jazeera.
Iraqi Foreign Minister
Hoshyar Zebari will raise the bor
der issue during a meeting of
regional foreign ministers in
Damascus, Syria next week, Al-
Jazeera said.
The latest attacks — 233
over the last seven days accord
ing to the U.S. military — have
driven the combat death toll dur
ing the occupation above the
number killed before President
Bush declared an end to active
combat on May 1.
Two American soldiers from
the 4th Infantry Division were
killed and one was wounded late
Tuesday when their Abrams bat
tle tank apparently hit a land mine
near Balad, 45 miles north of
Baghdad, division spokeswoman
Maj. Jossyln Aberle said.
Their deaths brought to 117
the number of American soldiers
killed by hostile fire since May 1.
A total of 114 U.S. soldiers were
killed between the start of the war
March 20 and the end of April.
It was the first M1 Abrams
battle tank destroyed since May
1, military officials said. Several
of the 68-ton vehicles — the
mainstay of the Army’s armored
forces — were disabled in com
bat before May 1.
The ambush of the
Ukrainians occurred Tuesday
night when two armored person
nel carriers rolled over land
mines near Suwayrah, about 40
miles southeast of Baghdad.
After the vehicles were dis
abled, gunmen opened fire on the
disembarked soldiers, a •
spokesman for the multinational
division at Camp Babylon said on
condition of anonymity.
The spokesman said it was the
first ambush against the Polish-
led force that since. September
has been patrolling a belt of cen
tral Iraq south of the capital.
About 1,650 Ukrainians are serv
ing in the Polish-led force of
some 9,500 peacekeepiers.
In Geneva, the International
Committee of the Red Cross said
it would remain in Iraq, but
would reduce the number of
international staff — now about
30 — and increase security for
those who stay. The agency has
600 Iraqi employees.
“The ICRC remains commit
ted to helping the people of Iraq,”
said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the
agency’s director of operations.
Medecins Sans Frontieres,
which operates clinics and helps
at a hospital in Baghdad, said
some of its international staff had
left Baghdad for Jordan.
Officials of the group said
medical personnel had been
scheduled to leave Baghdad in
the near future, but their depar
ture was hastened by the Red
Cross attack.
“The reduction was foreseen,”
spokeswoman Linda Van
Weyenberg said. “It was sped up
because of events. It’s a balance
between the security of the staff
and the needs of the population.”
She did not say how many
staffers left? The group previous
ly said it had seven international
staffers in Baghdad.
Baghdad police commander
Maj. Gen. Hassan al-Obeid on
Wednesday announced measures
to bolster security in the capital,
including additional 24-hour
checkpoints and special patrols
around sensitive locations,
according to coalition-run Iraqi
television.
Elsewhere, three soldiers from
the 101st Airborne Division were
slightly wounded Wednesday
when up to seven roadside bombs
exploded near their convoy in the
northern city of Mosul, the mili
tary said.
And in Ramadi, 60 miles west
of Baghdad, witnesses said an
explosive device intended for
U.S. troops detonated Wednesday
as a civilian car was passing by,
seriously injuring the driver.
Col. William Darley, a U.S.
military spokesman, said
American forces are now suffer
ing an average of 33 attacks a
day. That marked a dramatic
escalation over the average of 12
daily attacks reported in July.
By late September, occupation
authorities reported the average
ranged from “the low teens to the
mid-20s” over the previous two
months. On Oct. 23, the U.S. mil
itary said attacks averaged 26
daily between Oct. 8 and Oct. 22.
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