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Colonel Kareem Hajem, police chief of Karbala, says investigators believe that Iraqi Salafists carried out the suicide blasts that killed six coalition soldiers and a dozen Iraqi policemen in the city last month. A senior military official says the U.S. is paying more attention to the role of Salafists because of their "long-standing relationship to terrorism in other locations." The official mentions Algeria's violent Salafist Group for Call and Combat...
...helicopter was downed, apparently by a rocket-propelled grenade, near Tikrit on Friday, mirroring the felling of a Chinook helicopter near Fallujah at the start of the week that killed 16. Poland suffered its first combat loss in Iraq when an army major was hit by a sniper near Karbala. In a blow to American hopes of sharing more of the peacekeeping...
...others were killed in Baghdad's turbulent Sadr City when a false cry for help lured their squad into an ambush. Over the next four days, three G.I.s died in separate combat incidents. On Friday three U.S. soldiers and 10 Iraqis died in a fire fight at the Karbala headquarters of a Shi'ite cleric, and another American fell in Baghdad...
...random raids by coalition soldiers who search their houses and, in some of the biggest perceived outrages, rummage through women's wardrobes. Iraqis also resent the roundups that detain civilians, including many innocents, for weeks on end. U.S. troops have fallen into lethal fire fights, like the one in Karbala last Friday, when they clashed with religious groups. And they are alienating poor farmers like Abdel Fattah Naef, who once maintained lush orchards in a town 60 miles north of Baghdad. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division bulldozed his farmland last month following a series of ambush attacks on American...
...prestige boost. "We want to have credibility," asserts Milan Vanga, a Defense Ministry spokesman. But credibility that may be purchased in blood provokes some disquiet. "Hopefully, after the Yankees are gone, the locals will not understand that we are few and weak," a Bulgarian soldier now based in Karbala told a reporter for Trud, Bulgaria's largest daily. "This is my first mission and I am already scared." That concern is not limited to Central Europe. In Japan in July, Diet members attached to its pacifist tradition came to blows with those who ultimately won a precedent-shattering vote...