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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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