http://www.boston.com/dailynews/322/world/Blast_in_Iraq_wounds_two_soldi:.shtmlA bomb blast wounded two U.S. soldiers Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul while U.S. aircraft and tanks blasted trees and abandoned buildings along a road north of Baghdad to deny insurgents cover for rocket attacks.
In a blow to Iraq's U.S.-led administration, officials on Monday announced the resignation of an Italian coalition official, who accused the occupation authorities of incompetence.
''The provisional authority simply doesn't work,'' the Italian daily Corriere della Sera quoted Marco Calamai, a special counselor of the Coalition Provisional Authority, as saying. ''It's neither fish nor fowl. Reconstruction projects that were promised and financed have had practically no results.''
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