Bekijk Volledige Versie : 3 KRUISVAARDERS gedood door Iraaks verzet !
BAGDAD In Irak zijn drie Amerikaanse
militairen gedood.Twee van hen kwamen
bij een mortieraanval op een gevangenis
in Bagdad om,de derde dode viel bij een
bomaanslag elders in de hoofdstad.Sinds
het einde van de oorlog op 1 mei zijn
165 Amerikaanse soldaten omgekomen.
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A mortar attack has killed two US soldiers at a giant prison complex west of Baghdad and a third serviceman has been killed by a roadside bomb.
A military spokeswoman said the attack on the US-run Abu Ghreib prison on Saturday evening had left two soldiers dead and 13 wounded. No inmates were hurt.
A separate bomb blast killed a US soldier in a vehicle near Ramadi, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad on Saturday night, the US military said.
The growing insurgency has heightened international concern about the US strategy in Iraq.
In a major initiative to help rebuild the shattered economy, the Iraqi interim administration has announced that foreign investors will be allowed to buy complete control of previously state-owned enterprises - except its oil industry.
Foreign banks will be able to buy Iraqi financial institutions, while the central bank itself will become independent.
UN debate on Iraq
At the same time, a delegation from the US-appointed Iraq Governing Council has set off for New York to attend a UN General Assembly meeting that opens on Tuesday.
Aqila al-Hashimi came under a hail of gunfire in Baghdad
But the delegates left without Aqila al-Hashimi, a council member seriously wounded in the stomach, shoulder and leg by gunmen who opened fire on her car in western Baghdad on Saturday.
The only former Baath party member to serve on the council, she is reported to be in a stable condition and out of danger after a second operation for gunshot wounds.
She had been rushed to Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad before being transferred to a US military facility.
Ms Hashimi is thought to be the first member of the 25-member Governing Council to have suffered an assassination attempt.
A Shia Muslim, she is one of three women on the council, set up by US administrator Paul Bremer in July as part of efforts to hand power over to Iraqis.
Iraqi insurgents have launched daily attacks on US-led forces. The Americans have now lost 79 troops as a result of hostile fire since 1 May, when President George W Bush declared major combat operations to be over.
President Bush is meanwhile seeking support at the UN for a new resolution that would authorise a multinational force for Iraq.
The Iraq Governing Council delegation hopes to occupy Iraq's seat at the UN, but the Security Council remains deeply divided over the US occupation, with major powers including France and Germany demanding a more significant UN role.
Notorious prison
Abu Ghreib, Iraq's most notorious prison under Saddam Hussein, has been attacked frequently since it was taken over by the Americans shortly after the war.
Six Iraqi detainees were killed and 59 others wounded in a mortar attack on Abu Ghreib on 16 August, and last week a US military spokeswoman said the prison was coming under fire "four nights out of seven".
It is a vast, heavily fortified complex 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside the Iraqi capital, with at least five separate enclosures.
Tens of thousands of political prisoners were held there by Saddam Hussein's regime - and many were tortured and executed.
Now, it is being used to hold hundreds of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists, as well as common criminals. Many are living in tents surrounded by razor wire.
bron: bbc
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Grappig dat CNN hierover niks te melden heeft.
Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attacks
Sun September 21, 2003 08:15 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 13 were wounded in a mortar attack on a U.S.-run prison west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a military spokeswoman said on Sunday.
Another American soldier died when an improvised explosive device went off in the town of Ramadi.
The death of the troops brings to 80 the number of U.S. soldiers killed by hostile fire since major combat in Iraq was officially declared over on May 1 following the war that ousted Saddam Hussein.
The attack on the prison compound came at 9:54 p.m. on Saturday evening, the spokeswoman said.
"There were two soldiers killed and 13 wounded," she said. "No detainees were injured."
Attackers also fired mortar rounds at the prison on August 17, killing six Iraqis and wounding 59.
Abu Ghraib was one of the largest and most notorious prisons in Iraq during Saddam's rule. U.S. forces now hold both common criminals and Iraqis suspected of guerrilla attacks against them at the jail.
The third U.S. soldier died in a roadside attack west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday.
Officials said the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment soldier was killed in an improvised explosive device attack against a military vehicle Saturday night in the town of Ramadi, about 60 miles west of Baghdad.
The U.S. military said the soldier was pronounced dead on the way to a combat support hospital and that his name was being withheld pending notification of his next-of-kin.
On July 5, a remote-controlled blast killed seven Iraqi police recruits at their graduation ceremony in Ramadi, located within the so-called "Sunni Triangle," the heartland of support for Saddam which stretches to Ramadi west from Baghdad and north to the Iraqi leader's hometown of Tikrit.
bron: reuters