IRAQ: US MILITARY CONVOY ATTACKED IN MOSUL

Record ID: 355518

  • Title: IRAQ: US MILITARY CONVOY ATTACKED IN MOSUL
  • Date: 23rd December 2003
  • Summary: (U7) MOSUL, IRAQ (DECEMBER 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT SCENES) 1. VARIOUS OF U.S. TROOPS IN MILITARY VEHICLES 0.05 2. SLV SOLDIERS CLIMBING ONTO MILITARY VEHICLE 0.15 3. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS STANDING IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 0.26 4. SLV SOLDIERS SITTING IN VEHICLE 0.32 5. SLV HUMVEE 0.38 6. SLV MILITARY
  • Embargoed: 7th January 2004 12:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEH5P5QK7F87L09W4ODPNYBOVJ
  • Story Text: A U.S. military convoy was attacked by a
    rocket-propelled grenade on Tuesday in Mosul, the U.S.

    military said.



    A U.S. military convoy was attacked by a
    rocket-propelled grenade on Tuesday (December 23) in Mosul,
    the U.S. military said. A foreign private security guard
    was wounded.

    This comes after a bomb was found on Monday (December
    22) in the home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a Shi'ite leader
    and current head of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing
    Council, but was defused, his son said.

    U.S. soldiers arrested Muslim militants with links to
    the most wanted Iraqi official still on the run, but rebels
    signalled defiance with the assassination of a senior Iraqi
    judge.

    U.S. troops hope the seizing of the Muslim militants
    will generate intelligence leading to Izzat Ibrahim
    al-Douri, one of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's top
    aides.

    The detentions over the past 24 hours were significant
    because they point to a tangible link between Saddam
    loyalists and Muslim militants.

    U.S. officials have wavered between blaming Saddam
    loyalists, Muslim militants, or both for attacks on
    American soldiers and bombings of Western targets.

    Efforts to break the insurgents are set against U.S.

    plans to hand power to Iraqis by mid-2004 but to keep
    troops in Iraq until guerrilla activity has been wiped out.

    Boosting Iraq's battered economy is key to improving
    security.



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