Iraq Mortar Attack Injures 11 U.S. Troops

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/0701041.shtml

Iraq Mortar Attack Injures 11 U.S. Troops
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: June 30, 2004

Filed at 10:25 a.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Insurgents fired at least 10 mortar rounds at a U.S. base on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday, wounding 11 soldiers, two of them seriously, and starting a fire that burned for well over an hour.

That attack, along with a car bomb that exploded outside a police headquarters in Samawah, 150 miles south of the capital, Baghdad, were yet more evidence that insurgents have no plans of letting up their attacks even after the U.S. coalition authorities handed over sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on Monday.

Despite the end of the occupation, about 160,000 foreign troops -- most of them Americans -- remain in Iraq to provide security and train Iraq's new security services. American officials have warned that the transfer of sovereignty would not stop assaults.

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. But, the "handover" started a "new leaf" in a "sovereign" Iraq.....

and everything is now "going well"?

"Nothing to see hear folks, move along and vote Bush".

:eyes:

Regime Change begins at home.

:kick:

[xxqqqzme]

2. despite the END of the occupation????

when did the occupation end? I thought US troops continued occupying Iraq; that we R building 14 bases there to house a force of 80,000; when did the occupation end?

[mbperrin]

3. See, now we're just ASSISTING, right?

Gosh, get with the program! ;)

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=655734