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3 u.s. soldiers killed
in attack near Mosul
Strike is 2nd since Saddam's sons died
By Richard A. Oppel Jr.
Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la.
Prensa-Basln Özeti
fot Weapons and they took some peOple
for interrogation." .
At about 10 a.m.,he said, the Ameri-
.can forces towed away the wrecked vehicle,
which he said appeared to be a
Hu.mvee. The troops also removed an
unexploded grenade left behind by the
.and regretably brave Americans and co- . attackers, he said.
alition forces are being killed in this The region around Mosul has not
QAIYARA, Iraq: Three soldiers with war," Secretary of DefenSe Donald, seen the same intensity of violence
the U.S. Anny's 10lst Airborne Division Rtunsfeld said at.a Pentagon news brief- against U.S. troops. that •has become
were killed in an' ambush here early ing Thursday afternoon. common.doser to the capitaL Most of
Thursday morning that involved what He described the conflict as "an un- the recent deadly attacks against Amerone
local resident said was an attack by conventional war" and said: "But it is .ican soldiers have occurred tQthe north .
insurgents armed withgreilades and war, nonetheless. And we need toface and'west of Baghdad, in cities like Ra-
Kalashnikov assault rifles. those ¥s squarely, accept them, and madi and Falluja. The areà is heavy with :
Military officers offered no informa- win it." . . Sunni Muslims who were favored under
tion about who was behind the attack.Military officials said the convoy in the rule of Saddam and who noW, havand
the ambush undermined hopes that Q.aiyara was ambushed by small arms - '.
the killing on Thes~y of Saddam Hus- . fire and rocket-propelled grenades at . ing lost their special status, are particitsein's
two sons, Uday and Q!tsay, would about 2:30 a.m. Thursday. Two rocket- ti~Or~'6tngeredby the American occupaweaken
resistance to American forces. Il d d' d ...V' A7 Of'
prope e grena es an an Z1A~ were " L.Paui Bremer 3rd, the senl'or Am'
The attack was. the second serious fi d at th 't th ill'ta 'd.'
eroun
e SIe, e mry sai . .jcan administrator in Iran said at tt.l'~
strike against American troops in as. "I heard ,the Americans shooting," , fi' fi'" th .. .
many days in and around the large said Ibrahim Husain, 46, a farmer who bne Ing With Rums eId: "In e IDltia.
northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where sol- I' th'te fth ck. "It ke period, as I said on Thesday when we
diers from the l()lst joined with the Spe- me'
Ives near,
The
e sloe
re sb
atta wo first heard about this, I "'oul'd n'c;ltbe
ti' hard." .. '
cial Forces to kill TTdayand Q.usay as Soon, up. heysal'd, we the00Amen'cans ng ........ . surpns' ed to see an upti'ck in Vl'olence
'r' ~..
they hid out in an upscale home, On searching surroundt'ng homes .....Aer 10 against .our fiorces. But I think in the
, • nH,
Wednesday morning, one Amencan or 15minutes, the Americans came insoldier
was killed and six were side ilDdthey looked for weapons," Hu- age more Iraqis to come and give us in-
long run, it will also, hopefully;, encourwounded
in Mosul when a remote-deto- ' 'd."Th 1 .- d all formation about more Ba'athists." .
saID sai ey ooa.e over the Standing on the two-lane road where
IUlted device exploded as their co~voYhouse, and they apologized for not find- 'the ambush occurred, A1_,'~. .said he
was driving on the outskirts of the city, "ing anything." . ~ .. 1
Another soldier was killed Wednesday Outs'd th h h 'd, th Was not sure what prompted the attack
when his convoy was hit by a bomb in blocked
. lee
,offthe remote
ouse, e
stretch
sai
of
e
road.
troops or whether it was only coincidence that
Ar Ramadi, near Baghdad.' "Allover, there were trucks and heli- there had been four American deaths in
The deaths Thursday bring to five the copters," he said. Husain Said he had no or nearMosui withl#two: days Of the:'
number of American soldiers who have idea why the attack occurred, but that' killing of Saddam's sons. ",
died since the United States announced he doUbt~4 the assai~ts were from Alawy said. that many Jraqis reuudn
Thesday night, it had killed Hussein's Qjliyara, 'abarren swath ofland about 65, angry with the Americans. for letting
sons in a four-hour shootout earlier in kilometers, or 40 miles, south of MosuL the.economy disintegrate after the-war.
the day. , MahDtoud Unis Alawy, 30, who also "Irà~is just sit in their home," he 'sà.içl
. "There will be' successes, like Thes- lives nearby, said that after the attack, "They are angry and. have no money." I
day's raid,' and there will be setbacks "They started searching all the homes . The New York.1tmes .
-,
.'. Joseph BaraklAgence France-presse'
u.s. ti-oops firecJon a car Thursday at a cbeckpoint in.Baghdad, killing two Iraqis. Inthenorth, three. soldiers died in an amlnish. .
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