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Iraq Guerrillas Kill U.S. Soldier in Convoy Ambush
Fri August 29, 2003 07:05 AM ET
By Pilar Wolfsteller
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) -
Guerrillas ambushed a U.S. military convoy in Iraq with rocket-propelled grenades on Friday, killing a soldier and wounding three others amid growing calls for a United Nations force to pacify the country.
A U.S. Army spokesman said the six-vehicle convoy was attacked on a main road near the town of Baquba, part of the so- called "Sunni Triangle" north and west of Baghdad which is a bastion of anti-occupation sentiment.
"One soldier died, one has a chest wound and two were hit by shrapnel," Lieutenant Colonel William Adamson told Reuters. "They used rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s."
The death brings to 65 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in attacks since Washington declared major combat operations over on May 1 following the war which ousted Saddam Hussein.
Guerrilla resistance and major violence such as last week's bombing of the U.N. office in Baghdad have provoked debate on whether Washington and its allies have enough troops on the ground with the right training to stabilize Iraq.
With the Bush administration signaling for the first time it might agree to a U.N.-sponsored multinational force in Iraq, the United States and Britain are expected to explore a new U.N. resolution to encourage nations to send troops.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said in remarks published on Friday that the United Nations should be given a leading role with a clear timetable for the return of sovereignty to the Iraqi people.
"It must be clear that it concerns the liberation and return of Iraqi sovereignty according to an agreed timetable and an agreed course of action," Fischer told Handelsblatt newspaper.
France, which like Germany opposed the U.S.-led war, called on Thursday for a change of policy direction in Iraq, with the United States handing security over to a U.N.-mandated force.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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