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New York Times
May 3, 2007
By Alissa J. Rubin
BAGHDAD, May 2 — Three American soldiers were killed in combat operations in the capital on Wednesday and two were wounded, according to a statement from the military, on a day when thousands more troops arrived in the country.
Elements of the newly arrived Fourth Brigade of the Second Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., will be deployed around Iraq, according to the military. The brigade, one of the Army’s new Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, is the fourth of five additional brigades scheduled to be deployed in Iraq by the end of May. It has about 3,700 soldiers.
The capital seemed largely quiet, with a few pockets of violence, until evening, when a volley of mortar fire hit the Green Zone, where the Americans, the British and many Iraqi government officials have their embassies, homes and offices.
A suicide car bomber set off his explosives in the Sadr City district of the capital earlier in the day near a police station, killing four people, two of them police officers, and wounding 25, according to an official at the Interior Ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, two people were killed by mortar strikes. A roadside bomb killed one person, and several people were wounded in other attacks.
The police recovered 30 bodies in Baghdad, a higher number than had been typical for the past several weeks, an Interior Ministry official said. The number of bodies recovered has been used as a rough gauge of the prevalence of sectarian killings.
Near Hilla, two bodies were found, both shot in the head, according to the local police. A roadside bomb planted near a house killed a man and wounded his wife, and in the turbulent Haswa area north of Hilla, a mortar shell killed a child, the police said.
In the northern city of Mosul, two men were killed: a professor of computer science at Mosul University; and a teacher, said Brig. Gen. Saeed al-Jubouri of the Nineveh Police Press Department.
In Basra, the political situation remained tense as followers of an anti-American cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, threatened to avenge the detention by British forces of Sheik Saleh Agezani, a Sadrist leader. The troops also arrested five of the sheik’s brothers, according to Mr. Sadr’s supporters.
May 3, 2007
By Alissa J. Rubin
BAGHDAD, May 2 — Three American soldiers were killed in combat operations in the capital on Wednesday and two were wounded, according to a statement from the military, on a day when thousands more troops arrived in the country.
Elements of the newly arrived Fourth Brigade of the Second Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., will be deployed around Iraq, according to the military. The brigade, one of the Army’s new Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, is the fourth of five additional brigades scheduled to be deployed in Iraq by the end of May. It has about 3,700 soldiers.
The capital seemed largely quiet, with a few pockets of violence, until evening, when a volley of mortar fire hit the Green Zone, where the Americans, the British and many Iraqi government officials have their embassies, homes and offices.
A suicide car bomber set off his explosives in the Sadr City district of the capital earlier in the day near a police station, killing four people, two of them police officers, and wounding 25, according to an official at the Interior Ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, two people were killed by mortar strikes. A roadside bomb killed one person, and several people were wounded in other attacks.
The police recovered 30 bodies in Baghdad, a higher number than had been typical for the past several weeks, an Interior Ministry official said. The number of bodies recovered has been used as a rough gauge of the prevalence of sectarian killings.
Near Hilla, two bodies were found, both shot in the head, according to the local police. A roadside bomb planted near a house killed a man and wounded his wife, and in the turbulent Haswa area north of Hilla, a mortar shell killed a child, the police said.
In the northern city of Mosul, two men were killed: a professor of computer science at Mosul University; and a teacher, said Brig. Gen. Saeed al-Jubouri of the Nineveh Police Press Department.
In Basra, the political situation remained tense as followers of an anti-American cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, threatened to avenge the detention by British forces of Sheik Saleh Agezani, a Sadrist leader. The troops also arrested five of the sheik’s brothers, according to Mr. Sadr’s supporters.