US soldier killed in Baghdad, Rome to keep forces in Iraq despite al-Naseryah explosion
Iraq-USA, Military, 11/14/2003

The Italian defense minister Antonio Martino considered that the hand which carried out the explosion that targeted the headquarters of the Italian forces is the same that carried out September 11, 2001 against the USA.

Martino stressed upon inspecting the destroyed headquarters in al-Nasereyah, in south Iraq, that this attack will not make a change in the position of these forces in Iraq, noting enhancing of security measures in the future.

In this framework some 50 soldiers of the Italian special forces left yesterday Beiza airport on their way to al-Nasereyah. The Italian defense ministry explained that the soldiers commander Gen. Guido Belleni is accompanying the soldier.

On the other hand, the director of the Italian opposition Franchesko Rotelli stressed the need of reconsidering the mission of the Italian forces in Iraq. Calling on the government to insist the USA to put the Italian forces under the supervision of the UN. The defense department commission in Rome said that the result of the Italian losses in the Nasereyah explosion tolled 18 killings. The explosion also resulted in killing 9 Iraqis. News were contradictory concerning the number of wounded persons. While an Iraqi medical source said that the explosion resulted in wounding 84, 11 are in critical condition, the spokeswoman for the Italian embassy in Baghdad said that total number of injured people is 375.

Meanwhile, one American soldier was killed and another wounded after their vehicle was exposed to an attack in a street in Baghdad. An American military spokesman said that a bomb targeted their miltary vehicle in Baghdad and two soldier were injured and that later one of them died because of his wounds.

In another attack, an American military vehicle was exposed to a bomb explosion implanted on the roadside in Falouja city to the west of Baghdad and resulted in wounding one American soldier.

In Karkouk two American soldiers were injured when one explosive went off when their five vehicles and one truck were downtown of the city.

The American forces announced that it arrested on Wednesday evening Iraqis suspected to have had taken part in downing an American helicopter near Tikrit last week.

In another incident two Iraqis were killed at a check point installed by the occupation forces on Wednesday in Hamadenyah area in Abu Gharib quarters to the west of Baghdad.

In Baghdad, hundreds of Iraqi policemen backed by the American military police attacked yesterday at dawn the shelters of thieves in al-Kifah street in the downtown of Baghdad in the first operation of its kind since the beginning of the US occupation of Iraq.

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