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To: steve harris who wrote (178277)	11/21/2003 4:38:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578920

voanews.com Rockets Hit Iraq's Oil Ministry, Hotels VOA News 21 Nov 2003, 20:33 UTC U.S. military officials say insurgents were planning two more rocket attacks in addition to Friday's that hit the Iraqi Oil Ministry and two large Baghdad hotels. They say the rockets were fired from donkey carts. Eight rockets hit the oil ministry building causing fires. A short time later, six rockets hit the Sheraton and Palestine hotels, which house journalists and officials working with the U.S. led coalition. Several people were wounded in that attack. Following those attacks, coalition forces found two other donkey carts carrying weapons ready to fire. Officials believe one intended target was a Kurdish party headquarters. Separately, the U.S. military reported that another American soldier from the 4th Infantry Division was killed in an explosion north of Baghdad on Thursday. Details of the incident were not immediately released. In other violence, an explosion damaged the office of a British-based mine clearing agency in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. No casualties were reported. Some information for this report provided by Reuters.