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THE BATTALION Friday, December 12, 2003
Attack on U.S. forces kills
one soldier and wounds 14
By Christoper Torchia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Three
suicide bombers in a furniture
truck blew themselves up at the
gates of a U.S. Army base
Thursday, killing one soldier
and wounding 14. It was the
third suicide attack on American
troops in Iraq this week.
Three wounded soldiers were
evacuated from the headquarters
of the 82nd Airborne Division
west of Baghdad to a combat
hospital and the other 11
wounded were treated and
returned to duty, the U.S. mili
tary reported.
There were no U.S. fatalities
in the previous two suicide
attacks this week, indicating
defenses erected at American
facilities were paying off.
Early Friday, three loud explo
sions boomed in the “Green
Zone,” the compound housing the
headquarters of the U.S.-led
coalition, in central Baghdad.
A coalition spokesman said
two projectiles hit “in the vicin
ity of the Green Zone,” causing
minor damage to one building
but no casualties. He couldn’t
confirm whether the building
was in the zone.
If the explosions in Baghdad
on Friday occurred inside the
Green Zone, it would be the first
time in several weeks that the
seat of power of the U.S.-led
coalition power was hit.
Charles Krohn, a Pentagon
press official, said by telephone
from his room inside the Green
Zone that he heard the explosions.
“I heard what appeared to be
incoming mortar rounds,”
Krohn said. “I was shaken and I
heard a couple of thumps. I felt
the vibrations.”
The zone includes the A1
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Rasheed Hotel, which was used
by military and coalition civilian
employees until a rocket attack
Oct. 26 that killed a U.S. colonel
and wounded 18 other people.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz was in the hotel at the
time, but escaped injury.
Three Iraqis were killed in the
truck that exploded Thursday at
Champion Base in Ramadi, 60
miles west of Baghdad.
On Tuesday, suicide
bombers, one in a car and anoth
er on foot, blew themselves up
at the gates of two U.S. military
bases, wounding at least 61
American soldiers but failing to
inflict deadly casualties on the
scale of recent attacks in Iraq.
Most of the soldiers were
slightly hurt by debris and flying
glass, indicating the defenses
around U.S. facilities — sand
barriers, high cement walls and
roadblocks leading to the
entrances of bases — were hav
ing an effect.
The suicide bombers’ con
tinued testing of U.S. defenses
showed their tenacity; they seek
to undermine American resolve
by inflicting mass casualties
with a single strike.
Also Thursday, the military
reported one U.S. soldier
drowned and another was miss
ing after a patrol boat accident
on the Tigris River in Baghdad.
“The soldiers were conduct
ing routine patrols on the Tigris
River when one of the soldiers
fell overboard, and the other
soldier jumped in to save him,”
the U.S. Central Command
said in a statement.
U.S. soldiers said an Apache
helicopter that crash-landed
near the northern city of Mosul
might have been hit by ground
fire while making a low pass
over the area.
A military spokesman had
insisted that the helicopter was
forced to crash land
Wednesday because of
mechanical failure and that the
uninjured crew reported no
ground fire. But a commander
later said that he didn’t know
whether ground fire brought
down the 101st Airborne
Division helicopter.
The Apache came down near
a highway south of Mosul,
Iraq’s third-largest city. Troops
guarding the site Thursday
morning said the chopper had
been hit by enemy fire. They
asked not to be identified.
Brig. Gen. Frank Helmick
later said the cause of the crash
was unclear. “It could have been
a mechanical failure but again,
we are looking at all possibili
ties,” he said.
Mosul was the site of the
deadliest incident so far
involving U.S. forces. On Nov.
17, two Black Hawk helicop
ters collided and crashed,
killing 17 soldiers. Officers
have since acknowledged that
ground fire was the likely
cause.
Webb
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The Battalion as much as I do,” she said.‘i want to
motivate them and have them feel pride in their
work.”
Battalion adviser Ron George said Webb has
the experience, courage and conviction to be a
great editor.
“I think what I like most about Elizabeth is she
really cares about The Battalion, and that’ll keep
you going,” George said.
The semesterly turnover of management is
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new editors bring fresh ideas but also have to learn
about their new positions. Webb, he said, is a
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“She has grown a lot since she started working
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Webb said she will continue student leader
columns, which allow various student leaders out
lets to express their views, and “Meet the Batt”
receptions in which students can meet with mem
bers of The Battalion’s staff to discuss the news
paper and issues on campus.
She said she also hopes to maintain an open-
door policy with student leaders, organizations
and administrators.
“I really do hope that student leaders and
administrators know that we’re not trying to write
anything bad about anyone; we’re just trying to
inform,” Webb said. “I want any organization to
feel like they can come to us. We’re just as happy
to print positive news as anything else, or more.”
Webb said her main goal as editor is to serve
the student body the best way she can.
“That includes those who work here and the
rest of the student body in letting them know
what’s going on in the community,” she said.
“That’s who we serve.”
After graduating in December of 2004, Webb
said she plans to work for a publishing company
or newspaper.
“I’ve always loved reading everything, and so I
figured why not make a job out of it?” she said.
Still, she said there was once a time when she
would not have imagined herself working at a
newspaper.
“I never thought I’d work at a newspaper
because I always hated them,” Webb said. “But I
really appreciated it after working here. I realized
how much reporters care about the community
and how hard they work.”
Webb said at The Battalion, she found not only
a passion for journalism, but a group of friends
whom she would have not known.
“I think she found something here she didn't
expect to find,” George said.
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