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An explosion near a U.S. military convoy northeast
of Baghdad on Saturday wounded a civilian and damaged a Humvee vehicle, Iraqi
officials said. In the capital, a rocket attack on a house left two people
wounded.
The explosion occurred near Khalis town, 70
kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, said Hussein Ali, an official at
Abdul-Kareem Faris Hospital. A policeman who witnessed the blast said on
condition of anonymity that it came from within a car left on the roadside.
American forces blocked off the area after the attack, witnesses said. It was
not clear if there were any U.S. casualties. A U.S. official in Baghdad could
not confirm the bombing.
In west Baghdad on Saturday, a rocket slammed into
a house in a residential suburb, wounding two Iraqis, police Brig.Gen.Sabah
Muhand said.
In the city on Friday, a roadside bomb killed an
American soldier and wounded another, the U.S. military said. A U.S. Marine also
died as a result of hostile action a day earlier in Anbar province, of which the
most populous city is Fallujah, where four American civilians were killed and
their bodies mutilated earlier in the week. There was no sign of U.S. military
activity in Fallujah on Saturday, but residents braced for retaliation.
A Muslim cleric in the city used weekly prayers on
Friday to condemn the mutilation of the corpses but not their slayings. ``Islam
does not condone the mutilation of the bodies of the dead,'' Sheikh Fawzi Nameq
told 600 worshippers at a mosque opposite the mayor's office and near the scene
of Wednesday's deadly ambush of the Americans. ``Why do you want to bring
humiliation to the faithful? My brothers, wisdom is required here.'' His
condemnation conformed with a directive issued by senior Fallujah clerics asking
mosque Imams to denounce the mutilation.
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In Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief
of U.S. military operations in Iraq, said condemning the mutilation of the
bodies, but not the killings, was not enough. ``While the condemnation of the
mutilation was helpful, that is only a partial answer,'' Kimmitt said in an
e-mail to The Associated Press. ``Murder of innocents should be condemned''.
Kimmitt has pledged to hunt down those who carried out the killings, but said
clashes could be avoided if Fallujah officials arrest the culprits. The charred
remains of the Americans were dragged through the streets for hours after
insurgents ambushed their vehicles. Two corpses were hung from a bridge.
The likelihood of a U.S. military response to
Wednesday's gruesome events has brought to the surface months of pent-up
resentment of the American occupation and a celebration of the insurgents'
perceived heroism. ``Islam bans what was done to the bodies, but the Americans
are as brutal as the youths who burned and mutilated the bodies,'' said Mahdi
Ahmed Saleh, a 61-year-old retired primary school principal who runs a grocery
store. ``They have done so much to us and they have humiliated us so often.''
Saleh, like most men in Fallujah, singled out house raids as the one practice by
the U.S. military that has bred resentment. ``Look at this wide and long
street,'' he said, pointing to the road outside his small store. ``Do you see
any women? So, if we don't let them out on the street, can you imagine how we
feel when American soldiers barge in and see them in their sleeping gowns?'' |
