Scottie
04-24-2004, 07:05 AM
IRAQ UNREST CONTINUES
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At least nine Iraqis have been killed in a rocket attack on a market in a Shia suburb of Baghdad.
At least two projectiles hit the chicken market in the Ourfalli neighbourhood of Sadr City, witnesses said.
Abdul-Jabbar al-Zubeidi, director of a nearby hospital, said several of the 30 wounded were in critical condition.
It was not clear who had fired the weapons.
North of Baghdad, five US soldiers were killed when two rockets hit an army base.
US military officials said six people were injured when two 57mm rockets were fired into the base in Taji at 5.30am.
Taji is a former Iraqi air force base 12 miles north of Baghdad that is now used by the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division.
Earlier on Saturday a car bomb exploded in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit north of Baghdad, causing several casualties.
The blast near a shopping centre appeared to be a suicide attack as the car was moving at the time, the US military said.
Local police said at least four people had died in the attack.
US Marines are poised to resume an offensive in the Sunni town of Fallujah unless guerrillas turn over their heavy weapons.
And rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr remains holed up in the holy city of Najaf, with US troops are massed outside.
Today's unrest comes just days after 73 people died in a series of bomb attacks in the British-controlled city of Basra.
And they chant Anti-American words???
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At least nine Iraqis have been killed in a rocket attack on a market in a Shia suburb of Baghdad.
At least two projectiles hit the chicken market in the Ourfalli neighbourhood of Sadr City, witnesses said.
Abdul-Jabbar al-Zubeidi, director of a nearby hospital, said several of the 30 wounded were in critical condition.
It was not clear who had fired the weapons.
North of Baghdad, five US soldiers were killed when two rockets hit an army base.
US military officials said six people were injured when two 57mm rockets were fired into the base in Taji at 5.30am.
Taji is a former Iraqi air force base 12 miles north of Baghdad that is now used by the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division.
Earlier on Saturday a car bomb exploded in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit north of Baghdad, causing several casualties.
The blast near a shopping centre appeared to be a suicide attack as the car was moving at the time, the US military said.
Local police said at least four people had died in the attack.
US Marines are poised to resume an offensive in the Sunni town of Fallujah unless guerrillas turn over their heavy weapons.
And rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr remains holed up in the holy city of Najaf, with US troops are massed outside.
Today's unrest comes just days after 73 people died in a series of bomb attacks in the British-controlled city of Basra.
And they chant Anti-American words???