http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...355945,00.html
Baghdad exploded in violence today, as insurgents attacked a US patrol and a police station, assassinated four government employees and detonated several bombs. A US official admitted that security in some areas is deteriorating so badly that "it would now be difficult" to hold elections there.
One American soldier was killed and nine were wounded during clashes that also left three Iraqi troops and a police officer dead.
Some of the heaviest violence came in Azamiyah, a largely Sunni Arab district of Baghdad where a day earlier US troops raided the capital's main Sunni mosque. Shops were in flames, and a US Humvee burned, with the body of what appeared to be its driver inside.
US forces and insurgents also battled in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, where clashes have been seen almost daily. Nine Iraqis were killed and five wounded in Saturday's fighting, hospital officials said.
In northern Iraq, US and Iraqi forces uncovered four decapitated bodies as they continued a campaign to crush militants who rose up last week. American and Iraqi forces detained 30 suspected guerrillas overnight in Mosul, the US military said.
Baghdad exploded in violence today, as insurgents attacked a US patrol and a police station, assassinated four government employees and detonated several bombs. A US official admitted that security in some areas is deteriorating so badly that "it would now be difficult" to hold elections there.
One American soldier was killed and nine were wounded during clashes that also left three Iraqi troops and a police officer dead.
Some of the heaviest violence came in Azamiyah, a largely Sunni Arab district of Baghdad where a day earlier US troops raided the capital's main Sunni mosque. Shops were in flames, and a US Humvee burned, with the body of what appeared to be its driver inside.
US forces and insurgents also battled in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, where clashes have been seen almost daily. Nine Iraqis were killed and five wounded in Saturday's fighting, hospital officials said.
In northern Iraq, US and Iraqi forces uncovered four decapitated bodies as they continued a campaign to crush militants who rose up last week. American and Iraqi forces detained 30 suspected guerrillas overnight in Mosul, the US military said.
Comment