아 , 진짜 이라크 상황이 장난이 아니네요 ... - 69 Said Dead in Attacks Across Iraq : AP

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69 Said Dead in Attacks Across Iraq

 

 

6 minutes ago

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer

BAQOUBA, Iraq - Insurgents launched coordinated attacks Thursday

against police and government buildings across Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq

(news - web sites) less than a week before the handover of sovereignty.

The strikes killed 69 people including, three American soldiers, and

wounded more than 270 people, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.

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Most of the deaths were in Mosul,

where 44 people were killed and 216 injured in attacks that

included a string of car bombs.

Clashes also occurred

in Baqouba, Ramadi, Baghdad and other areas.

The extent of the attacks was a clear sign of just

how powerful the insurgency remains — and

could be the start of a new push to torpedo the June 30

transfer of sovereignty to an interim transitional government.

Iraqi police,

who have been entrusted to take a larger role in security

after the handover, appeared outgunned and

unable to hold positions in most of the cities under fire.

American troops raced to offer support,

using aircraft, tanks and helicopters to repel the guerrillas.

The military wing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group,

the Tawhid and Jihad movement,

claimed responsibility for the attacks

in a statement on an Islamic Web site.

The statement said that

members of the "martyrs' battalion"

had carried out a number of "blessed operations."

President Bush (news - web sites),

who is appealing to NATO (news - web sites) to help quell the escalating violence,

updated members of Congress about the situation in Iraq

during an hour-long meeting at the White House.

The heaviest fighting raged in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad,

where two American soldiers were killed and seven were wounded,

the U.S. 1st Infantry Division said.

U.S. aircraft dropped three 500-pound bombs against an insurgent position

near the Baqouba soccer stadium,

said Maj. Neal E. O'Brien, a U.S. 1st Infantry Division spokesman.

Insurgents roamed the city with rocket launchers and automatic weapons,

seized two police stations, and

destroyed the home of the police chief of surrounding Diyala province.

In other attacks, a man dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonated a car bomb

near a checkpoint manned by Iraqi and American soldiers

in the southern Baghdad district of Dora, killing four Iraqi soldiers.

Three U.S. soldiers tended a wounded American soldier as he lay on the road,

his helmet nearby.

Black smoke and flames rose from a burning pickup truck.

Attackers also set off an explosion as a military convoy passed in Baghdad,

injuring one soldier.

Also in Baghdad,

insurgents attacked four Iraqi police stations using mortars,

hand grenades and AK-47s on Wednesday and Thursday.

Police fought back, defending the stations with minimal assistance from coalition forces,

a U.S. statement said.

At Baqouba's main hospital,

doctors standing in pools of blood struggled to deal with a steady stream of wounded.

Civilian cars, including pickup trucks, raced to the emergency ward,

bringing people with gunshot and shrapnel wounds.

"May God destroy America and all those who cooperate with it!"

screamed one man in the corridor.

Another who drove up outside the hospital screamed,

"Oh God, Abbas is dead."

He later carried in the body of a young man

with a bullet hole in the back of his head.

The city, which has a mix of Sunni and Shiite Muslims,

was almost deserted by late morning.

U.S. gunships flew low over the city,

some swooping down on suspected rebel hideouts in palm groves.

Some motorists flew white flags from atop their cars to ensure their safety.

U.S. tanks, some firing their machine-guns, moved into the city center by the afternoon.

There was no sign of police on the streets,

but targets attacked by the rebels in the early morning hours

 — including the governor's office, police headquarters and the coalition's local offices —

were heavily guarded by police.

Guerrillas also targeted security forces in the northern city of Mosul,

where car bombs rocked the Iraqi Police Academy,

two police stations and the al-Jumhuri hospital.

Security forces lost control of the Sheikh Fatih police station following a car bombing,

but U.S. forces recaptured the station after subduing insurgents firing from a nearby mosque.

One American soldier died in Mosul, U.S. officials said.

Mosul's governor imposed a 9 p.m-6 a.m. curfew, and

 the city television station urged people to stay home for the "general good."

In Baghdad, U.S. officials projected calm.

They had been predicting a surge in attacks

to try to derail next week's transfer of sovereignty,

which marks the formal end of the American-run occupation.

Iraq's interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said

the attacks were an attempt to harm the Iraqi people and

"to foil the democratic process."

He said the situation was under control.

"We are going to defeat them.

We are going to crush them,"

he said at a ceremony

marking the transfer of the final 11 government ministries to Iraqi control.

"We expect more escalation in the days ahead."

In Baghdad, the Iraqi Health Ministry said

66 people were killed and 268 people wounded across the country

— excluding U.S. casualties.

In addition of the three dead, at least 12 American soldiers were wounded.

To the west of the capital, explosions and shelling shook Fallujah,

believed to be the nexus of the Sunni Muslim rebellion.

Armed men ran through the streets, and

Iraqi police and insurgents appeared to be working together, witnesses said.

U.S. forces clashed sporadically with insurgents at the edges of the city,

but did not try to enter the center.

U.S. forces have launched two airstrikes on Fallujah since Saturday

against what they said were safehouses for al-Zarqawi,

whose group claimed responsibility

for the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg and

Kim Sun-il, a South Korean whose decapitated body was found Tuesday.

U.S. Marines besieged Fallujah for three weeks in April

after four American civilian contractors working

for the Blackwater USA security company were ambushed and killed, and

their bodies mutilated.

The city has been relatively calm since the Marines announced a deal to end the siege that

created the Fallujah Brigade,

commanded by officers from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s army.

Although the Fallujah Brigade patrols the city,

hard-line clerics and fighters who held off the Marines are still in control.

[으쌰~]

정말 제2의 베트남전 꼴났군요..... 결국 미국은 승리한것이 아니라 패배한것이죠....... 우린 그 패배의 늪에 울며겨자먹기로 끌려들어가고 있고...

[bbryan]

진짜 이러다가는 , 제 2의 베트남전 꼬라지 나게 생겼습니다 ... 바램이 있다면 , 부시가 다른 나라좀 설득해서 , 프랑스.독일 등을 비롯해서 , 가능한 많은 국가들을 설득해서 , 이라크로 군대를 보내고 ... UN 의 관리하에 이라크를 통제하는것 뿐입니다 ... 적어도 UN 의 깃발아래 ~ 이런 명분이 진짜 필요한 시점입니다

[bbryan]

지금 부시도 , NATO 에 속해있는 유럽 국가들을 상대로 , 이라크에 파병 좀 해달라고 , 진짜 죽을 똥을 싸면서 설득하고 있는것 같은데 ... 제발 좀 잘됐으면 좋겠습니다 !!! 진짜 부시 , 그 미친 놈을 다 응원해야 하겠습니다 ...

[탁상시계]

이게 뭔 소린지 정리 좀 해주세요 --;;

[bbryan]

지금 김선일씨를 죽였던 , 알 자르카위를 비롯한 반군 폭도들이 ,,, 이라크 임시정부를 비롯해서 , 이라크 경찰청 , 미군 부대 등등 ,,, 닥치는대로 공격을 가하고 있고 ... 미군도 팔루자를 비롯해서 이라크 전역에서 , 반군 의심지역으로 믿어지는곳에 공습을 비롯한 총공세를 가하고 있는데 ,,,

[로드]

테러단체와 미국의 사이에서 이라크 국민들만 죽어나고 있네요. 안타깝습니다

[bbryan]

그 이라크 반군 폭도들의 공격으로 인해서 , 3 명의 미군들이 죽고 , 69 명의 사람들이 살해를 당하고 , 270 여명이 부상을 당했다고 합니다 ... 그리고 이라크 과도정부의 총리가 하는말이 , 앞으로 1 주일정도 남은 미국의 이라크 과도정부에 대한 권력 이양을 앞두고 ,,, 더욱더 심각한 반군들의 공격이 예상된다고

[bbryan]

하면서 , 이라크 폭도들은 이라크 사람들에게 해를 끼치려고 한다면서 , 이라크의 민주화 과정을 망치려고 한다면서 , 반드시 이라크 폭도들을 패배시키겠다 , 쳐부수겠다 , 지금 우리가 상황을 장악하고 있다 등등 말을 하는데 ... 지금 이라크 폭도들과 미군.이라크 과도정부 . 동맹군 사이의 전황이 지금 진짜

[bbryan]

심각해지고 있습니다 ... 앞으로 1 주일 정도 남은 권력 이양을 앞두고서 ,,, 이라크 폭도들이 최후의 발악을 하고 있는것 같습니다 ... 진짜 상황이 한치앞을 못볼정도로 , 혼미해지고 있네요 ...

[한류나그네]

우리도 지금 공병대나 의무대를 파병할 상황이 아니네요...!! 전투병을 보내야지 !! 전시에는 전투병이 오히려 젤로 안전해요...

[즐거이 살리라]

아~ 진짜 완전히 발목 잡혀가지고 끌려 들어가는 느낌....어떻게든 최대한 머리 굴려서 피해없이 빠져 나와야 하는데...광해군같은 리더가 필요함

[bbryan]

어떻게 이라크 폭도들이 , 목요일 하루 공격했는데도 불구하고 , 69 명이나 죽고 , 270 명이나 부상을 당할수 있는지 ??? 대체 이라크의 치안 상태가 얼마나 개판이면 , 하루 공격했는데도 이렇게 많은 사람들이 죽거나 다칠수가 있지요 ??? 진짜 말이 안 나오네요 ... 에휴 ~

[bbryan]

이런 이런 ... 벌써 그 짧은 시간안에 , 목요일 이라크 폭도들의 공격으로 인한 사망자가 , 69 명에서 89 명으로 증가했고 , 부상자 숫자도 270 명에서 318 명으로 증가했습니다 ... 대체 이라크에서 얼마나 죽을런지 ...

[탁상시계]

뉴스에 나오던데요. 주변국에서 테러범 5000여 명이 이라크로 입국했다고 --;; 정권 이양 앞두고 본격적으로 한바탕 할려는가 본데...

[bbryan]

지금 부시가 ... ㅋㅋ 참 부시도 가만히 생각하면 진짜 웃긴 놈입니다 ... 아무튼 부시가 NATO 정상회담이 터키에서 열리는데 , 부시가 묵을 앙카라 호텔에서 폭탄 테러가 발생해서 적어도 현재까지 최소한 4 명 이상이 죽고 , 14 명 이상이 부상을 당했다고 보도가 계속 나오고 있는데요 ,,, 미국 백악관 대변인이 성명을

[bbryan]

발표했는데요 , White House press secretary Scott McClellan said "these terrorist attacks are intended to disrupt preparations for the upcoming NATO summit." He added that Bush's schedule would not be changed.

[bbryan]

터키에서의 폭탄테러가 , NATO 정상회담을 방해하기 위한 목적이라고 말하면서 , NATO 회담에 참가하려는 부시의 스케줄은 변하지 않을것이라고 말하네요 ... 영국의 토니 블레어를 비롯해서 프랑스의 자크 시라크까지 참석한다고 나오는데 ,,, 부시가 지금 이라크 문제로 얼마나 똥줄이 타면 , 자기를 겨냥한 폭탄테러가

[bbryan]

터키에서 발생했는데도 불구하고 , 가겠다고 하겠습니까 ? ... 제발 부시가 잘 좀 설득해서 , 프랑스나 독일등을 비롯한 유럽 대다수 국가들이 이라크에 파병을 하도록 유도했으면 하는 바램입니다 ... NATO 의 깃발아래서 말이죠 ... 그럼 이라크 테러리스트들도 더 이상 명분을 찾기가 힘들겁니다 ...

[myall79]

what??

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bbryan님 흐름 파악 잘 하시네요..베리굿^^