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Zgeheu
18-09-03, 17:26
At least three American soldiers have been killed in an attack on a convoy in the town of Khaldiyah, west of Baghdad, according to witnesses.
A truck transporting troops was blown up by an explosive device on a road in the town, and soldiers were fired on as they tried to evacuate casualties, Iraqi sources said.

The US military said two soldiers were wounded when their convoy was attacked east of the town of Ramadi, but they have not commented on the reported attack in Khaldiyah.

Pictures from Khaldiyah showed a military vehicle burning fiercely as an American helicopter circled overhead.

Khaldiyah is part the so-called "Sunni Triangle" where support for ousted dictator Saddam Hussein is strongest and has been the scene of frequent clashes involving US troops.

Earlier, US soldiers in Iraq shot dead a 14-year-old boy and wounded several others after mistaking celebratory gunfire for an enemy attack, witnesses said.

'Sophisticated attack'

According to witnesses, the transport truck blew up after it drove over a landmine or bomb.


French news agency AFP quoted witnesses as saying several soldiers in the vehicle were burnt.

As soldiers tried to evacuate the wounded, they were reportedly attacked with grenades.

"A bomb exploded underneath a troop transport. It caught fire. The remainder of the convoy tried to continue and was hit by rocket-propelled grenades 500 metres [1600 ft] away," Khaldiyah resident Mahmud Ali told the agency.

US forces sealed off the road and called in reinforcements, another witness said.

The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones, who is in Baghdad, says it was quite a significant attack and more sophisticated than previous assaults because it involved a secondary attack on the Americans.

'Boy killed'

In Falluja, US troops reportedly opened fire as guests at a wedding party shot their guns into the air, killing a 14-year-old boy.

Witnesses said soldiers, believing they were under attack, formed a circle and began shooting.

At least four people were injured, witnesses said.

The reported incident fuelled tensions in the town, where opposition to America's presence in Iraq is strong.

It comes days after the US apologised for accidentally shooting dead eight Iraqis and a Jordanian in Falluja, a stronghold of supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

bron: bbc 18-09-03

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Zgeheu
18-09-03, 20:26
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Onduidelijkheid over aanslag Irak

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KHALDIYAH Ten westen van Bagdad is een
aanslag gepleegd op een konvooi van het
Amerikaanse leger.Het konvooi reed op
een op afstand bestuurbare bom.Daarna
kwam het tot vuurgevechten tussen de
Amerikanen en vermoedelijke Irakezen.

Volgens de Arabische zender al-Arabiya
zijn er acht Amerikanen gedood.Het
Amerikaanse leger meldt dat er twee
soldaten gewond zijn geraakt.Volgens
ooggetuigen en journalisten zijn er
zo'n 15 gewonden en zou een jongetje
van drie in de borst zijn geraakt.

De aanslag werd in de 'Soennitische
driehoek' gepleegd.In dit gebied wonen
veel aanhangers van Saddam Hussein.
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lennart
18-09-03, 20:31
Two soldiers wounded in convoy attack west of Baghdad

By The Associated Press

KHALDIYAH, Iraq - U.S. troops were ambushed on the
main road of this central Iraqi town Thursday, hit
by a remote-controlled roadside bomb and then
coming under heavy gunfire that destroyed at least
two trucks.

An Associated Press reporter who
arrived on the scene saw five
U.S. tanks, two Bradley
fighting vehicles and 40 troops
surrounding a neighborhood from
which gunmen opened fire after
the bomb exploded. Helicopters
hovered above.

Initially as U.S. troops were
taking fire from unknown positions, soldiers
were firing with no obvious targets, in an
apparent effort to protect themselves until
reinforcements arrived, a witness said.

The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American
soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television
reported eight Americans were killed and one
wounded.

An AP driver said a three-year-old Iraqi boy who
had been shot in the chest. His condition was
not known.

The AP reporter was fired on by one of the tanks
with three rounds from its 50-caliber machine
gun.

An AP photographer said his car was shot up by
American fire, the windshield blown out and all
the tires flattened. The photographer and his
driver were not injured.

Fifteen kilometers (nine miles) west a second
roadside bomb hit a military convoy of three
Humvees and a truck shortly after the attack in
Khaldiyah. One humvee that served as a troop
carrier was engulfed in flames.

It was not clear if the military casualty report
included the second incident.

American forces in the region are extremely
jumpy, caught in what increasingly is a classic
guerrilla war. Attackers and civilians look the
same and when soldiers come under fire, as they
did in Khaldiyah, they respond with massive
firepower. That is what apparently caused the
child, the AP reporter and AP photographer to
be shot at. A civilian tanker truck also was
hit by American guns and was burning as night
fell.

As it grew dark, the Americans pulled out,
removing the burned truck with a crane.

About 100 Iraqis began dancing in the streets
and carried a large poster of ousted dictator
Saddam Hussein dressed in fatigues. There was
celebratory gunfire and the people chanted:
"With our blood, with our souls we sacrifice
ourselves for you, Saddam."

Hours after incident soldiers pointed tank
cannons at reporters every time they tried to
approach to find out what had happen.

As it grew dark, the Americans pulled out,
removing the burned truck with a crane.

About 100 Iraqis began dancing in the streets
and carried a large photo of Saddam dressed in
fatigues. There was celebratory gunfire and the
people chanted: "With our blood, with our souls
we sacrifice ourselves for you, Saddam."

Khaldiyah is a town in the so-called "Sunni
Triangle" in central Iraq, the heartland of
support for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam and the
focus of an anti-American insurgency.

Khaldiyah's police chief was killed in an ambush
on Monday as he was returning to his home in
Fallujah. The brazen shooting of Col. Khedeir
Mekhalef Ali was the latest attack targeting
Iraqis who work with coalition forces.

About 30 kilometers (18 miles) to the east in
Fallujah, neighbors said a 14-year-old boy was
killed late Wednesday and six people were
wounded in a shooting incident that started
after people at a wedding fired guns into the
air to celebrate and a passing U.S. military
patrol opened fire believing it was under
attack.

The neighbors who witnesses the incident said
the boy and the wounded were hit
by American fire from a passing convoy of
Humvees.

In Baghdad, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the
coalition military commander in Iraq, said he
could not confirm that a boy was killed. He
said the incident was under investigation.

Adel Hmood, a neighbor, told The Associated
Press that the Americans opened fire in a
circle around themselves. He said the dead boy
was Sufyan Daoud al-Kubaisi who was on his way
to buy cigarettes when he was killed.

Bullet holes in homes and buildings in the area
suggested there was heavy firing by the
Americans during the incident which occurred
about two blocks off the main street in
Fallujah, a key city for the opposition to the
U.S. occupation.

A policeman in the city who spoke on condition
of anonymity said he had heard identical
reports. There were no U.S. forces to be found
in the city Thursday.

Last week American soldiers from the 82 Airborne
Division mistakenly opened fire on Iraqi police
cars chasing highway bandits just outside
Fallujah, killing eight Iraqi officers. The
military has apologized for the friendly fire
incident and opened an investigation into what
was the worst such incident since U.S.
President George W. Bush declared major
fighting over on May 1.

North of Baghdad, there was an explosion along a
pipeline carrying crude oil from the oil fields
near Kirkuk to Iraq's largest refinery at
Beiji, the U.S. military said in Tikrit.

Witnesses said the explosion occurred just north
of Beiji, about 200 kilometers (120 miles)
north of Baghdad. The cause of the blast could
not be immediately determined and the extent of
damage was unclear.

The military said the cause of the fire was not
yet known because it was raging so fiercely
investigators could not get close. Maj. Josslyn
Aberle, spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry
Division based in Tikrit, 200 kilometers (120
miles) north of Baghdad, said valves on the
20-inch (50.80-centimeter) pipeline were being
closed to shut off fuel to the fire.

Initial reports said the fire was on the main
export pipeline to Turkey, but the military
said it broke out on a feeder line from the
Kirkuk fields, Iraq's second biggest.

"The fire won't affect oil production or the
timetable for resuming exports," Aberle said.

The line to the Turkish Mediterranean port of
Ceyhan has been hit by a string of sabotage
attacks just days after it was reopened. L.
Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of Iraq,
said the line's closure was costing the country
US$7 million each day.

The military says the line should be back in
operation in about a month.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=341881&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

Dus teminste 2 aanvallen in Khaldilya en ook nog een bij Ramadi.