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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tech Master who wrote (477223)	10/17/2003 7:50:12 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Codpiece said..."Bring 'em on!"...so lets look at the current efforts to get his wish._________________________________________________ KARBALA, Iraq, Oct. 17 — Three U.S. military policemen were killed and seven were wounded in a midnight clash at a Shiite Muslim cleric’s headquarters in this shrine city, the U.S. command reported Friday. At least nine Iraqis also were killed, according to witnesses and the U.S. command. The Americans were members of the 101st Airborne Division, said Maj. Mike Escudie of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida. GUNFIRE BROKE OUT again Friday morning in the same area in this restive city, where Thursday night’s encounter may have signaled a new U.S. determination to disarm religious-based militias and enforce curfews. Prior to the deaths in Karbala, a total of 194 U.S. soldiers had been killed by bombings, ambushes and other hostile incidents since President Bush declared an end to major combat operations May 1. BLAST RIPS OPEN OIL PIPELINE On Thursday, an explosion damaged part of the main pipeline running from Iraq’s northern oil fields, forcing a reduction in the amount of oil available for export. It was unclear whether the pipeline explosion near the city of Hadeetha, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad, was caused by saboteurs, a senior Oil Ministry official said on condition of anonymity. There have been many attacks on pipelines in the region, complicating the American rebuilding effort in Iraq, which depends on oil revenue. L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq, has said the country is losing $7 million daily because of the closure of the export pipeline to Turkey. In September, the line reopened for three days for the first time after the war. Three bomb blasts along the line forced its closure. OTHER VIOLENCE: Police shot and killed the driver of a car packed with 220 pounds of explosives as he approached a police ministry office, in Irbil, 200 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday. The car did not explode. A bomb blast hit a police station in the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, wounding a policeman, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported. Station chief Lt. Col. Anwar Qader Ahmad said the attackers were Saddam Hussein loyalists. In Tikrit, a 4-year-old Iraqi girl was killed Thursday when a bomb exploded just outside the main U.S. Army base. Her 12-year-old sister was critically wounded, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials said they believed the bomb was intended for two U.S. Bradley armored vehicles that had passed down the same road minutes before the blast. In the southern city of Basra, an Iraqi doctor, Haidar al-Baaj, was shot in the back of the head and killed as he was entering his clinic, hospital officials said Thursday. Al-Baaj, 48, was recently promoted to the post of director of the Educational Hospital in Basra, the officials said. The officials and members of al-Baaj’s family said he had been threatened over the past two months for cooperating with authorities of the U.S.-run coalition. Iraqi security officials said Thursday that a woman with explosives tied to her belt was arrested Tuesday as she tried to enter a Finance Ministry building, apparently to carry out a suicide attack. The incident occurred in a building next to the Iraqi Central Bank on the same day as a suicide bomber tried to blow up the Turkish Embassy, killing himself and wounding more than a dozen others.