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To: LindyBill who wrote (14132)	10/27/2003 10:06:21 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793616

U.S. blames foreigners for Baghdad bombs Mon October 27, 2003 05:20 PM ET reuters.co.uk BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. general says there are signs foreign fighters were behind four suicide bombings that killed 35 people and wounded 230 in Baghdad's bloodiest day since Saddam Hussein was overthrown. U.S. President George W. Bush, campaigning for re-election next year amid mounting criticism over his Iraq policy, vowed on Monday not to retreat after the attackers drove a bomb-packed ambulance at Red Cross headquarters and struck three police stations. The apparently coordinated morning rush-hour bombings followed the killing of three U.S. troops overnight and the death of another in a rocket attack on Sunday on a Baghdad hotel where U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying. "There are indicators that certainly these attacks have a mode of operation of foreign fighters," U.S. Brigadier General Mark Hertling told reporters, adding that one attacker captured in a foiled raid on a police station had a Syrian passport. "He's a foreign fighter. He had a Syrian passport and the policemen claim that as he was shot and fell that he said he was Syrian," Hertling said, echoing previous U.S. statements that al Qaeda and other foreign militants were operating in Iraq. cont'd.....