George W. Bush
03-09-2004, 10:03 AM
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9188
TIKRIT, Iraq - Insurgents killed a freshly-arrived US soldier Tuesday in a bomb attack north of Baghdad and wounded seven people in a grenade attack on a municipal building in the violence-riven town of Mosul.
A roadside bomb claimed the life of a soldier from the 1st Infantry Division (1ID) and wounded a colleague traveling in a vehicle convoy near Baquba, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Baghdad, a US military official said.
The wounded man, from the departing 4th Infantry Division, was in stable condition.
Baquba falls on the eastern edge of the so-called Sunni triangle where insurgents, with sympathies for jailed leader Saddam Hussein, have used home made explosive devices to bleed US forces since last summer.
It was the first combat death for the 1ID in Iraq, still in the course of arriving here as part of the greatest US troops rotation since World War II, division spokesman Major Neal O'Brien said.
Added to an official Pentagon tally, the death raises to 265 the number of US soldiers killed in action since US President George W. Bush declared official hostilities over on May 1.
Meanwhile, an assailant lobbed a grenade at the local governing council building in the explosive city of Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, police said.
The attacker spotted a US soldier inside the building in the Bab al-Tub neighborhood in central Mosul and hurled the grenade, wounding two policemen, three government employees and two civilians, said police spokesman Azem Haffuzi.
Late Tuesday, three people ambushed a police car in the Mosul neighborhood of Bi Uz, but police fired back and killed three attackers and captured a fourth. Four policemen were injured in the shootout, Haffuzi said.
TIKRIT, Iraq - Insurgents killed a freshly-arrived US soldier Tuesday in a bomb attack north of Baghdad and wounded seven people in a grenade attack on a municipal building in the violence-riven town of Mosul.
A roadside bomb claimed the life of a soldier from the 1st Infantry Division (1ID) and wounded a colleague traveling in a vehicle convoy near Baquba, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Baghdad, a US military official said.
The wounded man, from the departing 4th Infantry Division, was in stable condition.
Baquba falls on the eastern edge of the so-called Sunni triangle where insurgents, with sympathies for jailed leader Saddam Hussein, have used home made explosive devices to bleed US forces since last summer.
It was the first combat death for the 1ID in Iraq, still in the course of arriving here as part of the greatest US troops rotation since World War II, division spokesman Major Neal O'Brien said.
Added to an official Pentagon tally, the death raises to 265 the number of US soldiers killed in action since US President George W. Bush declared official hostilities over on May 1.
Meanwhile, an assailant lobbed a grenade at the local governing council building in the explosive city of Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, police said.
The attacker spotted a US soldier inside the building in the Bab al-Tub neighborhood in central Mosul and hurled the grenade, wounding two policemen, three government employees and two civilians, said police spokesman Azem Haffuzi.
Late Tuesday, three people ambushed a police car in the Mosul neighborhood of Bi Uz, but police fired back and killed three attackers and captured a fourth. Four policemen were injured in the shootout, Haffuzi said.