IRAQ: U.S. AIRCRAFT DROPS A HALF-TONNE BOMB ON NORTHERN CITY MOSUL AFTER GUERRILLAS ATTACKED A U.S. PATROL

Record ID: 358667

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. AIRCRAFT DROPS A HALF-TONNE BOMB ON NORTHERN CITY MOSUL AFTER GUERRILLAS ATTACKED A U.S. PATROL
  • Date: 11th December 2004
  • Summary: (EU) MOSUL, IRAQ (DECEMBER 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF SITE WHICH WAS HIT BY U.S. BOMB / FIRE (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. CU: ROCKET LAUNCHER IN CAR 0.18 3. MASKED MILITANT CARRYING ROCKET LAUNCHER 0.26 4. VARIOUS OF DEBRIS IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 0.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserv
  • Embargoed: 26th December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: MOSUL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAD9HF50JPDSOUDFJGK616TS802
  • Story Text: U.S. bombs Mosul, number of casualties unknown.


    A U.S. aircraft dropped a half-tonne (500 lb)
    bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday
    (December 11) after guerrillas attacked a U.S. patrol that
    was trying to capture an insurgent arms dump, a military
    spokesman said.

    The powerful blast shook the west of the city. There
    was an "unknown number of enemy casualties" and eight
    soldiers were slightly wounded, Lieutenant Colonel Paul
    Hastings said.

    Insurgents had set off a car bomb and then opened fire
    with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars on the
    unit that moved on the arms cache. Troops later destroyed
    the weapons.

    Earlier in the day in the city, where the Sunni Arab
    insurgency has been particularly active in the past month,
    another car bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy
    wounding at least two passers-by, witnesses and the U.S.

    army said.

    Three high-ranking Iraqi police officers were among
    those killed in scattered other violence across the
    country.

    In southern Baghdad, gunmen assassinated a police
    brigadier and a colonel, a police source said. Near the
    northern town of Ash Sharqat a police colonel was one of
    two officers killed in an ambush. There others, including a
    colonel, were wounded.

    Security officials and civil servants have become prime
    targets for insurgents opposed to the U.S. military
    occupation and to Iraqis working for the U.S.-backed
    authorities. There are fears violence may increase before
    an election on Jan. 30.
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