BAGHDAD, 28 August (PL)— The U.S. Central Command
confirmed today that there were nine casualties
among their ranks this weekend in Iraq, where the
resistance has intensified its actions against the
occupation.
A concise communiqué from the U.S. command
admitted that four soldiers were killed between
Saturday and Sunday to the north of the capital.
In Tal Afar, 420 kilometers northeast of Baghdad,
five soldiers were wounded in an explosion caused by
a bomb placed at the roadside by insurgents on
Saturday.
Other sources reveal that seven, not four,
soldiers were killed.
The U.S. has lost 2,628 soldiers in Iraq since
the beginning of the war on March 20, 2003, the
majority in rebel attacks.
This Monday, the resistance detonated a car bomb
in front of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior
headquarters. Eight police were killed and 47
wounded.
The Operation Forward Together, which commenced
July 14 and is already in its second phase with
67,000 soldiers patrolling the streets of the
capital, as well as other offensives aimed at
destroying the resistance are doomed to failure,
given the insurrectionists’ determination to expel
the foreign occupants from their nation.
