Insurgents hit the U.S. embassy with an audacious rocket strike on Saturday that killed two Americans and wounded four, and also killed 17 Iraqis and an American soldier on the eve of Iraq's landmark election.
Militants who have sworn to turn the poll into a bloodbath and kill anyone who dares to vote frequently fire rockets and mortars at Baghdad's fortresslike Green Zone, but Saturday's attack was the first in months to cause Western casualties.[...]
Even as U.S.-trained security forces barricaded streets, sealed land borders and closed Baghdad airport, more than a dozen polling stations were attacked and bloodshed continued to overshadow the final electoral countdown.
Reuters article
War News for Saturday, January 29, 2005
Bring ‘em on: One US soldier killed by small arms fire in Baghdad ambush.
Bring ‘em on: Three Iraqi soldiers killed, four wounded in rocket attack near Duluiyah.
Bring ‘em on: Three Iraqi soldiers, five civilians killed by suicide bomber near Khanaqin.
Bring ‘em on: Three US soldiers killed, one wounded by roadside bomb in Baghdad.
Bring ‘em on: Five Iraqis killed by car bomb at Baghdad power plant.
Bring ‘em on Six Iraqi soldiers killed in Ramadi ambush.
Bring ‘em on: One US soldier killed, three wounded by roadside bomb in Baghdad.
Bring ‘em on: Heavy fighting reported in Samarra.
Bring ‘em on: One Iraqi policeman killed in multiple attacks on Kirkuk polling stations.
Bring ‘em on: Mosul election center heavily damaged by car bomb.
Bring ‘em on: Insurgents execute three Iraqi contractors near Balad.
Bring ‘em on: Four polling stations in Basra bombed.
Bring ‘em on: One Iraqi soldier killed, one wounded in mortar attack near Suwayrah.
Two US soldiers killed in helicopter crash near Baghdad.
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