07-27-2003, 09:25 AM
Three US soldiers were killed guarding a children's hospital in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, and four more wounded in a grenade attack yesterday.
The deaths of the soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division brought to 161 the number of troops killed in Iraq since the start of the war, 14 more than were killed in the 1991 Gulf War.
The killings marred what had been a quiet day in Iraq, as residents debated the authenticity of video images of Uday and Qusay Hussein released the previous day.
There had been a number of explosions and bursts of gunfire in the city throughout the day, but no reports of soldiers injured or killed.
The guerilla-war style attacks on American forces have been averaging 12 a day, according to the military.
It's not uncommon to hear gunfire and explosions in Baghdad during the night. The military had no details about them yesterday morning.
There were also reports that shots were fired along the main highway leading to the northern city of Mosul, where Uday and Qusay were killed on Tuesday.
In Baghdad's Al Shoala neighbourhood, the commander of Iraq's national police academy was wounded in a raid against suspected hijackers, police said.
Brigadier Ahmed Kadhim, 56, was shot while leading a police raid, said his assistant, Captain Mushtak Fadhil.
He said several Iraqi police were trying to arrest five suspected hijackers when shots were fired. None of the police were killed but Kadhim was shot in the right calf and taken to a hospital. Five other policemen were wounded, including one critically.
Fadhil said five suspected hijackers were arrested.
Baghdadis have complained that kidnappings, car thefts and carjackings are getting worse in the city, which is patrolled by Iraqi Police, many of whom carry sidearms. There are about 60 police stations in the city.
Iraqis continued to debate whether videotape of the brothers, whose faces were covered in morticians' makeup, would convince people of the deaths.
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The deaths of the soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division brought to 161 the number of troops killed in Iraq since the start of the war, 14 more than were killed in the 1991 Gulf War.
The killings marred what had been a quiet day in Iraq, as residents debated the authenticity of video images of Uday and Qusay Hussein released the previous day.
There had been a number of explosions and bursts of gunfire in the city throughout the day, but no reports of soldiers injured or killed.
The guerilla-war style attacks on American forces have been averaging 12 a day, according to the military.
It's not uncommon to hear gunfire and explosions in Baghdad during the night. The military had no details about them yesterday morning.
There were also reports that shots were fired along the main highway leading to the northern city of Mosul, where Uday and Qusay were killed on Tuesday.
In Baghdad's Al Shoala neighbourhood, the commander of Iraq's national police academy was wounded in a raid against suspected hijackers, police said.
Brigadier Ahmed Kadhim, 56, was shot while leading a police raid, said his assistant, Captain Mushtak Fadhil.
He said several Iraqi police were trying to arrest five suspected hijackers when shots were fired. None of the police were killed but Kadhim was shot in the right calf and taken to a hospital. Five other policemen were wounded, including one critically.
Fadhil said five suspected hijackers were arrested.
Baghdadis have complained that kidnappings, car thefts and carjackings are getting worse in the city, which is patrolled by Iraqi Police, many of whom carry sidearms. There are about 60 police stations in the city.
Iraqis continued to debate whether videotape of the brothers, whose faces were covered in morticians' makeup, would convince people of the deaths.
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