At least two people have been wounded, one of them seriously, when three rockets slammed into the main hotel housing foreign journalists and contractors in Baghdad...The Sheraton Hotel nearby, also home to many foreign journalists, was evacuated after it also came under fire but there were no reported casualties.
...a contractor with the US multinational Halliburton was seriously wounded.
A home-made rocket launcher on a donkey-drawn cart has been found on Saadun Street near the hotel, with rockets on the pavement beside it.
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Attacks on foreign journalists - sounds like a Coalition maneuver. Ooops, got a Halliburton employee. Collateral damage.
Okay, I know.
Elsewhere, the oil ministry building in the Iraqi capital has also been hit by rocket fire and set ablaze. And a rocket launcher with dozens of rockets was found near the Italian embassy.
Hmmm. The oil ministry was the one place that was heavily guarded from the beginning, while other ministries for arts and education and infrastructure were left to be looted. I wonder where the guards were.
The Iraqi capital has become the scene for almost daily attacks by resistance fighters on US-led occupation forces and targets associated with the government it has installed.
The US has responded by stepping up the intensity of its military operations in and around Baghdad over the past fortnight.
Yep. Blasting trees and walls and vacant buildings, and once in a while a community of innocent citizens. Very effective measures.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Friday, November 21, 2003
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