----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood To: lbo-talk Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] a day in Iraq
Violence Sweeps Baghdad; U.S. Gunship Fires on Crowd By Ibon Villelabeitia
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at Iraqis milling around a burning U.S. vehicle in a Baghdad street Sunday during fierce battles in which witnesses and officials said 13 people had been killed and 61 wounded.
Elsewhere in the city, at least seven car bombs and various outbreaks of violence killed nine Iraqis, and insurgents fired over a dozen mortar bombs or rockets around the U.S.-occupied Green Zone compound.
It was one of the heaviest barrages in the capital in months. "We've seen a tremendous increase in the number of attacks," Brigadier General Erv Lessel, a U.S. military spokesman, told Reuters.
South of Baghdad, three Polish soldiers were killed and three wounded when they were attacked near Hilla.
In rebel-occupied Ramadi, west of Baghdad, U.S. tanks and helicopters fired on a residential district, killing 10 Iraqis, including women and children, a doctor said. The U.S. military had no immediate comment. =================