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To: Rick McDougall who wrote (507956)	12/11/2003 5:25:27 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Respond to of 769670

Mission Accomplished!!!!!!!!!! NOT++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said three or four explosions rocked Baghdad late on Thursday but there was no immediate word on casualties in the blasts which witnesses said were in the area of the U.S. headquarters in the city. "I can confirm there were three or four explosions but there are no other details," said a U.S. army spokeswoman inside the compound reached by telephone. Immediately after the explosions around midnight (4 p.m. EST) sirens could be heard coming from the direction of the U.S. headquarters on the west bank of the Tigris river and helicopters buzzed over the area. The compound is a sprawling complex of palaces and parkland which the U.S. authorities in Baghdad have turned into a heavily defended fortress. Earlier on Thursday, a suicide car bomb attack at a U.S. military base in Iraq (news - web sites) killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 14. U.S. military officials said the bomb was concealed in a furniture truck and detonated outside a base of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division near the flashpoint town of Ramadi, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. They said the vehicle was driven by a suicide bomber and that there were believed to have been two other Iraqis in the truck who also died in the explosion. At least 196 U.S. troops have been killed in action in Iraq since Washington declared major combat over on May .