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Thursday, November 6, 2003
WORLD
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Three American military
convoys attacked in Irat
By Mariam Fam
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSUL, Iraq — Insurgents
attacked three American mili
tary convoys in this northern
city with rocket-propelled
grenades and roadside bombs
Wednesday, killing three Iraqi
civilians and wounding five
Americans, the U.S. military
and hospital officials said.
The attacks occurred in a city
long considered relatively safe
for U.S. troops, compared to
Baghdad and the cities and
towns' in the “Sunni Triangle” to
the south.
Elsewhere, paratroopers of the
82nd Airborne Division captured
two former Iraqi army generals in
Fallujah, the military said. The
generals were not identified, but
the military said they were sus
pected of financing and organiz
ing anti-coalition fighters in the
volatile city west of Baghdad.
Guerrillas near Fallujah shot
down a U.S. Army Chinook hel
icopter on Sunday, killing 15
soldiers in the bloodiest single
strike against American forces
since the war began March 20.
No American soldiers were
reported killed Wednesday by
hostile fire. But one 1st Armored
Division soldier died of wounds
from a “non-hostile gunshot” at
a checkpoint in Baghdad, the
military said.
In one of the Mosul attacks, an
Iraqi teenager was killed in a
grenade blast near city hall, hos
pital officials said. Two Iraqis and
one U.S. soldier were wounded,
the U.S. military reported.
Hospitals reported 10 Iraqis were
wounded; the discrepancy could
n’t be reconciled immediately.
In another incident, two Iraqi
civilians died in Mosul when a
rocket-propelled round struck
their car after apparently miss
ing a military convoy, Sgt. Chris
Ryder said. He said an Anny
explosives disposal specialist
was wounded. Hospitals report
ed three Iraqis were wounded.
Later Wednesday, two
American soldiers were injured
in a rocket-propelled grenade
attack, the military said. Another
was wounded when an impro
vised explosive device exploded
at his convoy.
In Baghdad, the new head of
the Iraqi Governing Council, Jalal
Talabani, announced he would
visit Turkey on Nov. 19 to seek
improved relations. He said he
would also go to Iran and Syria.
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month when the Turkish parlia
ment voted to allow the govern-
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that have killed dozens of people
in Iraq in recent weeks.
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tion of al-Qaida and Ansar al-
Islam,” Talabani said. “We have
a plan to fight those.”
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Islam is linked to al-Qaida, and
some U.S. officials say it repre
sents the main organized adver
sary to American forces in Iraq.
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