Iraqi resistance intensifies attacks: 4 Americans killed
Iraq-USA, Economics, 7/11/2003

Iraqi resistance intensified their attacks against the American forces during the past 24 hours and carried out a series of attacks that resulted in killing 4 American soldiers, whereas members of the Iraqi police in Falouja threatened to resign if the occupation units will not leave the city, considering their existence as "constituting a threat on us."

In a statement, the American central leadership said that one soldier from the third supporting contingent was injured and then killed when his procession on Wednesday was exposed to fire from light weapons in an ambush installed for the procession in al-Mahmoudeyah city, to the south of Baghdad. An American spokesman said earlier that two soldiers were killed in this operation.

A statement, the US leadership said that "one soldier from the fourth contingent in the troop unit was killed and another wounded in an attack by RBJ shells to their processions." An American military spokesman said that this attack took place in Takrit city while the German news agency said that the American soldier wounded in the operation died later.

The American statement said that a soldier from contingent number 4 was killed on Wednesday in Balad ( 75 Km to the north of Baghdad). Another soldier was killed on Monday.

In al-Ramadi, the Iraqi resistance men out three attacks by mortars on Wednesday evening but did not result in casualties. A logistic base was hit near Balad by a mortar and material losses were inflicted.

Eye witnesses said that three operation in which mortars and shells were used that targeted on Wednesday evening American soldiers in Falouja. No information were reported on casualties.

Meantime, scores of former members in the Iraqi police demonstrated yesterday in front of the general headquarters of the occupation forces in Falouja in protest of the presence of the American forces in their city, demanding their evacuation. The commander of the town's police Riad Abdul Latif said that " the existence of the American forces constitutes a danger on us. We have asked the Americans since one and a half months to leave Falouja." The protesters handed over an appeal to the American leader of the area saying they will resign within 48 hours should the American forces not leave.

On the other hand, the American army invited yesterday oil companies to bid for two new contracts of a value of USD one billion in order to rebuild the Iraqi oil industry. One of the two contracts is for the southern Iraq area while the second is in the southern region. The two contracts will replace a contract taken in March without a bid of the American Halliburton company.

In Berlin, Germany asserted yesterday it will not send forces to Iraq despite the welcome expressed by the US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday of any French and German participation.

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