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2 Us Soldiers Killed 5 Wounded 19

Juan Cole 02/05/2005

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2 US soldiers Killed, 5 wounded
19 Iraqis killed; Mosque Bombed

CNN reports that guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill two US soldiers and wound five others near Baiji outside Tikrit on Friday afternoon.

Guerrillas kidnapped an Italian journalist in Baghdad. These incidents are so common that it is worth underlining that the US military and the Iraqi interim government do not control most of the capital of the country they claim to be running.

Guerrillas in Baghdad near Abu Ghraib used rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire to ambush a five-vehicle police convoy late Thursday, killing one policeman and wounding three.

Al-Hayat reports that guerrillas blew up a Shiite mosque and a Shiite mourning center in Baghdad, and were responsible for the deaths of 19 Iraqis in various attacks.

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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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