Secret Squirrel
07-28-2005, 01:21 PM
Roadside bombs killed two American soldiers in northern Baghdad and ignited a train carrying fuel in the south of Iraq's capital, killing two Iraqis and wounding six others, officials said Thursday.
The bombing that killed the two U.S. soldiers came Wednesday during a patrol by soldiers assigned to the Army's Task Force Baghdad, the military said on Thursday. Another U.S. soldier was wounded.
Their deaths brought to three the number of American soldiers killed in central Iraq on Wednesday; seven have been killed since Sunday night. In the other Wednesday attack, a roadside bomb killed an American soldier and wounded five others in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. On Sunday, four American soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were killed when their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad.
As of Wednesday, at least 1,782 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
On Thursday, a train carrying fuel exploded into flames when it was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding six others, police said.
The attack, which sent a massive cloud of smoke over the southern part of the city, occurred in the southern neighborhood of Dora, an area where insurgents are known to be active, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said.
The bomb appeared to have targeted a nearby police commando checkpoint, Mahmoud said. One of those killed and four of the injured are security force members, he said. The rest were civilians.
It wasn't clear if the train, which was heading south, was also the target.
Most of the wounded suffered serious burns, Thaer said.
The violence came a day after Iraq's most feared terror group said it killed two kidnapped Algerian diplomats because of Algeria's ties to the United States and its crackdown on Islamic extremists.
The diplomats' deaths brought to three the number of foreign envoys reported killed this month as part of a militant campaign to isolate Iraq's embattled government within the Arab and Muslim world. Two other apparent kidnapping attempts against diplomats were foiled.
link (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5172764,00.html)
The bombing that killed the two U.S. soldiers came Wednesday during a patrol by soldiers assigned to the Army's Task Force Baghdad, the military said on Thursday. Another U.S. soldier was wounded.
Their deaths brought to three the number of American soldiers killed in central Iraq on Wednesday; seven have been killed since Sunday night. In the other Wednesday attack, a roadside bomb killed an American soldier and wounded five others in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. On Sunday, four American soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were killed when their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad.
As of Wednesday, at least 1,782 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
On Thursday, a train carrying fuel exploded into flames when it was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding six others, police said.
The attack, which sent a massive cloud of smoke over the southern part of the city, occurred in the southern neighborhood of Dora, an area where insurgents are known to be active, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said.
The bomb appeared to have targeted a nearby police commando checkpoint, Mahmoud said. One of those killed and four of the injured are security force members, he said. The rest were civilians.
It wasn't clear if the train, which was heading south, was also the target.
Most of the wounded suffered serious burns, Thaer said.
The violence came a day after Iraq's most feared terror group said it killed two kidnapped Algerian diplomats because of Algeria's ties to the United States and its crackdown on Islamic extremists.
The diplomats' deaths brought to three the number of foreign envoys reported killed this month as part of a militant campaign to isolate Iraq's embattled government within the Arab and Muslim world. Two other apparent kidnapping attempts against diplomats were foiled.
link (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5172764,00.html)