Coalition spokesman: Mortars hit Baghdad
One U.S. soldier killed in Tikrit, another attack in Uja
Monday, November 3, 2003 Posted: 1:57 PM EST (1857 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A day after a U.S. Army helicopter crashed in a suspected shoot-down, killing 16 soldiers, two separate attacks were made Monday against U.S. troops in Iraq, a military spokesman said.
Three or four mortars slammed into central Baghdad on Monday evening, a coalition military spokesman told CNN.
The spokesman declined to say where the mortars struck, but the blasts, which hit shortly after 9 p.m. (1 p.m. EST), shook the ground at the Palestine Hotel, where many journalists are based.
Initial reports indicated the sound of the blasts came from the vicinity of one of Saddam Hussein's palace complexes now occupied by the U.S.-backed Coalition Provisional Authority.
To the north of the capital, in Tikrit, ancestral homeland of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a 4th Infantry Division U.S. soldier was killed Monday afternoon when his vehicle hit a mine, a U.S. military spokesperson said.
Just outside the Iraqi town of Uja, the spokesman said, a 4th Infantry Division patrol came under attack by small-arms fire Monday evening. No casualties were reported in that incident. |
