Nine Die As Insurgents Hit Baqouba, Iraq ( Allawi's office blown up)

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040626/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents launched attacks in the strife-ridden city of Baqouba on Saturday, and nine people died, six of them insurgents, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Attacks occurred in other cities north and south of Baghdad.


The attacks in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, came only two days after U.S. tanks and jets routed insurgents who assaulted police stations and government offices in the city as part of a widespread offensive that killed about 100 people nationwide.


In the Saturday attacks, rebels targeted offices of two political parties — one of them run by Iraq (news - web sites)'s prime minister — a police station and a government building in Baqouba. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces took up defensive positions across the city, the center of Iraq's orange-growing region.


A taxi apparently filled with weapons and ammunition blew up a street about 250 yards from one of the political party offices that was attacked earlier, witnesses reported.




An Iraqi woman and her children leave their home as U.S troops from the First Infantry Division enter the building during search for weapons in Baqouba, Iraq (news - web sites) Saturday June 26, 2004. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

[Dragon Turtle]

1. What is going on there is the best thing

to have ever happened to the Iraqis :eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Can't you see

how much better off they are without Saddam?