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Titolo: Several killed in Baghdad Green Zone blasts

Several killed in Baghdad Green Zone blasts
Thursday 14 October 2004, 20:24 Makka Time, 17:24 GMT    
The zone houses embassies and interim Iraqi government offices
 
 Twin blasts inside Baghdad's Green Zone have killed at least ten
people and wounded 20, US military and hospital sources said. 
"The dead include three Department of Defence civilians," Lieutenant
Colonel James Hutton said. Six Iraqis were also killed.
He said the wounded included 13 Iraqis, three US citizens and two US
military personnel.
A revised figure later put the number of US contractors killed at
four. US officials said the four were employees of the private
security firm DynCorp.
After the blasts, thick black smoke billowed from the heavily
fortified zone, which houses Iraqi government offices and the US and
British embassies, witnesses said. 
 
The exact location of the blasts was not known, but smoke appeared to
be rising from near the main entrance to the Green Zone. 
 
Fighters have frequently attacked the sprawling compound on the
western bank of the Tigris river in their campaign against US forces
and Iraq's interim government. 
More attacks
Meanwhile, 15 members of the Iraqi National Guards were killed in an
attack on a building housing Iraqi police and National Guards in
al-Qaim city near the Iraqi-Syrian border.   
Officials expect anti-US fighting
to last for many more months
 
Aljazeera said many employees had refused to go to work in the border
town, while others evacuated the building just minutes before the
attack.
Elsewhere, unknown assailants in a car killed two senior Iraqi army
officers in Baquba, north of Baghdad, one of their colleagues said. 
 
He identified the officers as Brigadier-General Nadim Muhsin and
Lieutenant-Colonel Imad Awad. 
 
There was no immediate word on the motive for the killings. But
anti-US fighters frequently attack members of Iraq's security forces,
accusing them of collaboration.
Mosul bombs
About two hours before the attacks in the capital, a roadside bomb
killed a civilian and wounded six Iraqi National Guards in the
northern city of Mosul, while a car bomb exploded near a US military
convoy, Iraqi police and hospital sources said. 
They said the roadside bomb exploded in the city's northern Baladiyat
district. The driver of a passing construction vehicle was killed. The
six guards sustained light wounds. 
The car blew up as five US Stryker fighting vehicles were passing
through the Islah district in western Mosul, witnesses said. There was
no immediate word on military or civilian casualties.
US soldiers killed
A second US soldier was killed in an attack in central Baghdad on
Thursday, after another was killed and two wounded by a homemade bomb
on the eastern side of the capital, a US military statement said.  
US military authorities say attacks
are expected to rise in coming days
"One Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed in central Baghdad when a
patrol was attacked with small arms fire at about 1:45 pm (1045 GMT),"
it said.
Earlier, a soldier was killed and two wounded in an improvised
explosive device attack on the eastern side of the capital.
There have been 1086 US soldiers killed in Iraq since the US-led
invasion in March 2003, according to the latest Pentagon tally.

 
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