IRAQ: SECURITY AT ITALIAN EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD INCREASED AFTER 18 ITALIANS ARE KILLED IN BOMB ATTACK AT THEIR MILITARY BASE IN NASSIRIYA
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IRAQ: SECURITY AT ITALIAN EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD INCREASED AFTER 18 ITALIANS ARE KILLED IN BOMB ATTACK AT THEIR MILITARY BASE IN NASSIRIYA
- Title: IRAQ: SECURITY AT ITALIAN EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD INCREASED AFTER 18 ITALIANS ARE KILLED IN BOMB ATTACK AT THEIR MILITARY BASE IN NASSIRIYA
- Date: 13th November 2003
- Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 13, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WS: SECURITY GUARDS OUTSIDE THE ITALIAN EMBASSY 0.06 2. SCU: EU AND ITALIAN FLAGS OVER FENCE 0.12 3. MORE OF SECURITY 0.20 4. MAN PAINTING A BLAST WALL 0.28 5. TRAFFIC PASSING THE EMBASSY 0.37 6. SECURITY GUARDS, BARBED WIRE FENCE 0.42 7. LV OF EMBASSY WITH ROAD IN FOREGROUND 0.47 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 28th November 2003 12:00
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
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- Story Text: Security at the Italian embassy in Baghdad is
increased after 18 Italians died at a military base in
Iraq.
As Italy reeled from Wednesday's (November 12)
bombing of a military base in Nassiriya that killed 18
Italians in the country's highest military death toll since
World War Two, security increased at the embassy.
Blast walls and a barbed wire fence were erected at the
compound which houses the Italian embassy in Baghdad on
Thursday (November 13).
Italy's Defence Minister Antonio Martino on Thursday
visited Italian soldiers wounded in a devastating suicide
attack in southern Iraq that killed 27 people, and the U.S.
military said another American soldier had been killed.
Grappling with an expanding insurgency, U.S. forces hit
back on Wednesday evening after a string of night attacks
on the U.S.-led administration's Baghdad headquarters.
Martino, who has blamed the bombing on supporters of
deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, was also expected to
inspect the blasted military police base on the Euphrates
riverfront in the town, 375 km (235 miles) southeast of
Baghdad.
The explosion tore off the front of a three-storey
concrete building, killing 16 Italian police officers and
two Italian civilians. Hospital officials said at least
nine Iraqis were killed and more than 80 wounded.
About 2,300 Italian troops are in southern Iraq and
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said they will stay.
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