Explosions hit Italian embassy and Mosul

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/72BE9C5E-F9B5-4135-939B-C1031C047A2F.htm

A number of mortar shells have exploded near the Italian embassy in Baghdad on a day which saw more violence in Mosul and other parts of Iraq that left several Iraqis dead and wounded. "Several mortar shells fell about 50m from the embassy but there were no Italian victims," Italy's Defence Minister Antonio Martino said in Rome on Thursday.
"We don't know if there were Iraqi victims."
Martino added: "Our intelligence services have for some time been passing us information that an attack against the embassy may be possible. This time there was no harm done."
Italy has 3000 military personnel in Iraq based in the area around the southern town of Nasiriya.


Demands
Following the attack, ,snip> Martino did not respond to the opposition's requests. However, he did deny reports that appeared in the Italian military journal, Analisi difesa, that four Mangusta attack helicopters had been sent to Iraq to boost the Italian contingent before elections there in January.
"The Mangustas have not been sent to Iraq and there are no plans to send them," he said.

[alittlelark]

1. "just another day in paradise"

This should be the fron t page of (ALLOFOURPAPERS) Were are losing, and 'going down'.... what happened to US.?

[Old and In the Way]

2. They are taking out the coalition one by one.

I'm thinking Bush will be the first President in our History to start a war and lose it within his time in office.