IRAQ: FIVE U.S. SOLDIERS ARE INJURED IN ATTACK ON A U.S. ARMY VEHICLE IN MOSUL AND A U.S. CONVOY IS ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY ANTI-US GUERRILLAS IN FALLUJAH

Record ID: 355466

  • Title: IRAQ: FIVE U.S. SOLDIERS ARE INJURED IN ATTACK ON A U.S. ARMY VEHICLE IN MOSUL AND A U.S. CONVOY IS ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY ANTI-US GUERRILLAS IN FALLUJAH
  • Date: 17th October 2003
  • Summary: (W6) MOSUL, IRAQ (OCTOBER 17, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. TRAVELLING SHOT: SMOKE RISING FROM ATTACK AS U.S. ARMOURED VEHICLES RACE TO SCENE 0.12 2. SMOKE RISING FROM SCENE AS U.S. SOLDIERS AND VEHCILES BLOCK ROAD 0.24 3. LV: FLAMES AND SMOKE RISING FROM DESTROYED VEHICLE ON HILLSIDE 0.34 4. PAN/ZOOM IN: LOCALS WATCHING BURNING VEHICLE 0.44
  • Embargoed: 1st November 2003 12:00
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  • Location: MOSUL AND FALLUJA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA78R1T5JRKQQYSZ75OX6MSTI2M
  • Story Text: Five U.S. soldiers have been injured in an attack on a U.S.

    army vehicle in Mosul and a U.S. convoy has
    allegedly come under attack from anti-U.S. guerrillas in
    the city of Fallujah.



    Five U.S. soldiers were injured on Friday (October
    17) when their vehicle came under attack near Mosul in
    northern Iraq, coalition sources confirmed to Reuters.

    Reuters television filmed smoke rising in the distance
    from the scene of the attack as U.S. army vehicles raced
    ahead of them. The army closed off the road leading to the
    scene.

    The vehicle, situated on a scrubby hillside dotted with
    low buildings, belched flames and thick clouds of black
    smoke as locals watched.

    U.S. troops came under a volley of stones thrown by a
    crowd of about 100 Iraqi youths on the western edges of
    Mosul when soldiers were apparently cordoning off the area
    after the attack.

    Unconfirmed reports said troops fired into the air to
    disperse the crowd as military helicopters circled
    overhead.

    A U.S. army convoy came under attack by anti-U.S
    guerrillas in the city of Fallujah, 60 km west of Baghdad,
    eyewitnesses said.

    There was no immediate confirmation from the U.S
    military in Iraq.

    In a separate incident, a U.S. soldier was seriously
    wounded near Fallujah.

    Earlier, a U.S soldier died in a blast in Baghdad,
    hours after three troops were killed in the central Iraqi
    city of Kerbala, taking to 101 the U.S. combat losses since
    Washington declared an end to major hostilities five months
    ago.


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