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Guerrillas Kill 2 Us Troops Wound 10

Juan Cole 10/23/2003

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Guerrillas Kill 2 US troops, wound 10

Guerrillas killed two US troops at Kirkuk on Wednesday, according to al-Sharq al-Awsat; this report was not confirmed at press time by the US military. The paper also reported three US troops wounded at a Kurdish village, Laylan, near Kirkuk.. Guerrillas wounded 2 US soldiers in Baghdad with an explosive device aimed at their convoy as it entered a tunnel, around 6:45 am on Wednesday. Guerillas wounded 4 US soldiers in Fallujah with a bombing of their convoy. Local townspeople gathered to watch the wrecked vehicle burn, looting it and cheeing. They then threw fuel on it. In Mosul, guerillas exploded a bomb in front of a convoy of the 101st Airborne Division, slightly injuring 1 US soldier. Lt. Gen. Sanchez said at his news conference that the number of attacks is increasing, and recently peaked at 35 one day. Although he tried hard to pin some attacks on al-Qaeda, he more or less admitted that they are mainly carried out by Sunni Arab nationalists from Iraq. He let slip that no confirmed al-Qaeda suspects is in US custody. The US has made hundreds of arrests. I believe that the opposition is mainly homegrown.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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