Word: ambusher
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...DIED. Akila al-Hashemi, 50, one of three women in the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council; of gunshot wounds suffered in an ambush five days earlier; in Baghdad. Al-Hashemi eschewed marriage for a career in Saddam Hussein's foreign service. She was the only member of the U.S.-backed government from the deposed regime and was tipped to become Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations. Her assailants have not been apprehended...
...semi-trailer and a large transport truck. It shows 50 people dancing by the flames, chanting "we give our blood and souls for you Saddam." A Fedayeen member, his face unshrouded, then shoots the flaming wreck twice with an AK-47. The Anbar branch also claims responsibility for this ambush...
...passed the number killed during the war. The 65 postwar U.S. combat casualties have come in ones and twos; the incident report for Wednesday, for example, is typical: One U.S. soldier killed and three wounded by an improvised explosive device in Fallujah; another soldier killed in an ambush on a convoy in Baghdad and two of his colleagues wounded, four soldiers wounded in two separate ambushes in Baqubah and Ramadi. The U.S. is facing a guerrilla insurgency capable of mounting multiple simultaneous attacks in different locations, high profile terror attacks that spread panic in the civilian population and systematic sabotage...
...than 20 were wounded in attacks across Iraq. The growing intensity of the fighting was highlighted around the town of Balad, 40 miles north of Baghdad, where militants wounded 17 soldiers in an attack on a U.S. base. Hours later a separate group of 50 resistance fighters tried to ambush a U.S. convoy, resulting in an eight-hour fire fight that left 11 Iraqis dead. Most attacks on U.S. soldiers are not even reported by the Pentagon, since military officials usually announce only those clashes in which Americans are killed or injured. "We're still at war," said Lieut. General...
...attacks on America's troops are continuing. One is killed in a Baghdad ambush. Another is shot while buying something from a street vender elsewhere in the capital. Then there's the mess over in Falluja, an hour's drive to the west. You'd think that the country is rising up against the occupation. But, despite the headlines, there's still a good deal of support for the U.S. forces among Iraqis, or so I found traveling around the country speaking to leaders and, mainly, to ordinary folks...