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...says Ahmed. Five moved on foot, and three rode small motorcycles. At about 1 a.m., they attacked from two directions, opening up with Kalashnikovs and firing two rocket-propelled grenades at the buildings. Ahmed says that the U.S. soldiers returned fire and that the next day they left the compound. "Every time they retreat it is a victory," he says...
American soldiers in the mayor's compound that night mostly confirm that version of events but quibble on the timing of the assaults. Captain Jay Persons, a spokesman for the 1-505, who was in the mayor's office during the fighting, says four soldiers were injured, two when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded beside them on the roof of the building they were guarding and two from small-arms fire. He also confirms that the U.S. left the compound the following day. "We're a real attraction whenever we're a fixed target," says Persons. "So we're handing...
...that showed popular support for the radical opposition. International observers claimed the election was marred by serious irregularities. A Credible Threat SAUDI ARABIA Just a day after the U.S. closed its diplomatic missions citing credible evidence of an imminent terror attack, at least one powerful explosion wracked a residential compound in west Riyadh at midnight on Saturday. There were conflicting reports of casualties; many children were among the victims. Government officials blamed al-Qaeda and said the attackers exchanged fire with security guards at the compound, which housed Saudi workers and foreigners, but few Westerners. The attack came nearly...
...make anyone take notice. A stranger in the garb of a Shi'ite cleric rang the doorbell at the Baghdad home of a Spanish diplomat involved in intelligence gathering. As the diplomat fled, the stranger's armed accomplices gunned him down. A white Oldsmobile careered into a Baghdad police compound and exploded, killing eight Iraqis and wounding 40. A Toyota Corolla packed with explosives scooted around 12ft.-high concrete barriers guarding the Baghdad Hotel, where some members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council stay, and detonated, killing six Iraqi guards and injuring 40 more. A suicide car bomber aiming...
...bulk of the $50,000 the CIA had provided al-Jaburi was for buying accomplices. He started with "Ahmed" (not his real name), an SSO officer in the main presidential compound whom al-Jaburi already knew. "I told him everything," says al-Jaburi. "I told him I'd listed his name with the CIA, and I had $5,000 for him." Ahmed proved an easy sell, replying, "What do you want from me?" The SSO man described where the Republican Guard had been posted in Baghdad and its environs, and revealed that it had been ordered to pull back into...