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Texas Ave., Bryan 268-0036 All credit cards & checks accepted. 4B NATION I Thursday, November 13, 2003 THE BATTALIoJ Truck bomb strikes Italian base, 26 die By Slobodan Lekic THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAS1RIYAH, Iraq — A sui cide bomber blew up a truck packed with explosives at an Italian paramilitary base Wednesday, killing at least 26 people. The United States struck at the Iraqi insurgency hours later, destroying a warehouse in Baghdad and chasing attackers who were seen firing mortars. The Nasiriyah attack was the deadliest against an American ally since the occupation began and appeared to send a message that international groups are not safe anywhere in Iraq. It came on the same day the chief U.S. administrator for Iraq went to the White House to put forth proposals on transferring more authority to the Iraqis. Col. Gianfranco Scalas said 18 Italians were killed: 12 Carabinieri paramilitary police, four soldiers, a civilian working at the base and a documentary filmmaker. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said at least eight Iraqis also died. The bomber — whose nationality was not known — also died. The blast wounded 79 peo ple, 20 of them Italians, hospital sources and Italian officials said. Italians were stunned by their nation’s single worst military loss since World War II and its first in the Iraq campaign. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi pledged that Italy’s mission in Iraq would not be derailed. Opposition leaders who opposed the deployment to post war Iraq called on the govern ment to withdraw the contingent. Jalal Talabani, the head of the Iraqi Governing Council, called the slain Italians “martyrs of the fight for the freedom of Iraq.” Witnesses said the decoy car ran a roadblock in front of a square where the Italian barracks was located. Guards opened fire but as the vehicle sped away, the fuel tanker approached from the opposite direction and rammed into the gate of the building before exploding. Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino said the truck, followed by an armored car, approached the compound at high speed. Gunmen inside one of the vehicles opened fire at Italian troops guarding the entrance, he said. The guards returned fire, but the vehicle plowed through the gate, and then exploded, he added. It was the 13th vehicle bombed in Iraq since Aug. 7, when a car exploded at the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, killing at least 19 people. Wednesday’s blast from the estimated 650 pounds of explosives collapsed all three sto ries of the building, gouged a 6- foot-deep crater in front of it, and set fire to parked cars. “This is terrorism, pure and simple,” Scalas said. The attack had an immediate SYRIA TURKEY .A ojW* \ 0 1001® ; IRAQ Truck bomb exploded killing fourteen SAUDI ARABIA KUWAIT *- SOURCES: Associated Press, ESRI (? I I affect on deployment plans among U.S. allies. Portugalsaii it was sending 128 elite pofe officers originally slated fn Nasiriyah to Basra instead.Aitj Japan said it was postponinge first dispatch of troops uni sometime next year instead o; by the end of 2003. “The facility is a known meet ing, planning, storage and teir dezvous point for belligerent ei ments currently conducts attacks on coalition forces an] infrastructure," the Pentagonsaii The mission was part of “Operation Iron Hammer,”i new “get tough” policy for cot' fronting insurgents. Also Wednesday, troops it| Baghdad spotted attackers finnt mortars, a statement from the Is Armored Division said. Hit attackers fled in a van, makinj several stops as they tried to evade pursuing ground troops. An Apache helicoptergunship discovered the van headingootof the city near the Abu Ghraibsut- urb and opened fire, disablingK vehicle and killing two of to occupants, the statement saii Three occupants were wounth] | and five others were captured. | Troops searching thefiistl place where the van stopjKil| found an 82min mortar lanai I tube, the statement said. Searcte of the other sites continued. President Bush met with fe top foreign advisers and chid Iraq administrator L. PaulBteinei on Wednesday to discuss the strategies to accelerate the trans fer of power in Baghdad and deteriorating security “We have said from set that we wanted to authority to the Iraqis as as they were able to assume ii and that is what we have done,” Bremer said in Washington, “We have been moving fond on ways to continue to transfei authority to the Iraqis as they are ready for it.” Secretary of State Colin Powell said there will be “ups and downs in attitudes and feel ings. We will remain Ions enough to make sure the Ira# people have the opportunity lo put in place a governmentthatis democratic.” Italy has sent about 2,311) troops to help rebuild Iraip About 340 Carabinieri are based in Nasiriyah, along with lli Romanians. No Romanians were reported wounded in Wednesday’s attack. Mclnnis Continued from page 1A that will enrich the living environment of Mclnnis Hall by pro viding more opportunities for studying and programming will residents of other halls.” At the end of the trial semester, the visitation policy will bf reviewed by Mclnnis Hall Council and Staff and RHA. If the vis itation policy is deemed successful at the end of the semester,rec ommendations will then be made to Sasse and Kibier to continue the policy. The evaluation will be based on the number of guest polic) violations, the number and nature of documented cases of room mate conflicts related to the visitation policy and a measure ui resident satisfaction. 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