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Violence in Iraq Shows No Letup
Agence France Presse, Arab News
BAGHDAD, 29 December 2003 — A bomb blast killed a US soldier and two Iraqi children in Baghdad yesterday, a day after a rebel assault left 12 Iraqis and seven coalition soldiers dead and scores wounded in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.
A top Kurdish security official was also wounded in an ambush that killed three bodyguards in a continuing upsurge in violence, coinciding with reports that the United States has scaled down ambitious plans to build a new Iraq.
Two Iraqi children were killed, along with a US soldier, in the bomb blast in the capital yesterday morning, a US military spokesman told AFP. Five soldiers, one Iraqi interpreter and eight Iraqi Civil Defense Corps members were also wounded.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that attacks on the US-led occupation have prompted the United States to scale down its ambitious agenda to rebuild the country. US officials had in the past few months dropped plans to privatize state-owned businesses and backed off efforts to disarm militias under the control of ethnic and political factions. US administrator Paul Bremer and his deputies are now focused on forging compromises with Iraqi leaders and combating a persistent insurgency, the Post said.
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| Earth, a planet hungry for peace |
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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, like a Python (Alquds, 1/25/03. |
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