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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (44644)	5/3/2004 12:58:32 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

with Bush in power....the current scenario.... ebaumsworld.com CC

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (44644)	5/3/2004 1:28:58 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

No fuzzy math here....NINE MORE SOLDIERS KILLED!!!!! Attacks against American soldiers continued Sunday across the Sunni heartland of western and north-central Iraq. Six American soldiers were killed and as many as 30 wounded in a mortar attack on an American base in Ramadi, a town about 50 miles west of Baghdad. American commanders offered few details of the attack, which occurred at about 2:30 p.m. "One of the shells hit a densely packed location," a senior American military officer said. "It was pretty ugly." Last month, Ramadi was the scene of one of the most violent days of fighting for American forces in Iraq, when 12 marines died in fighting with Sunni insurgents. Also on Sunday, two American soldiers were killed and one wounded when their convoy was struck by a homemade bomb in northwestern Baghdad. One American soldier was killed and 10 wounded during an attack on a military base in Kirkuk. Two American soldiers were killed overnight Saturday when their convoy was attacked near Amara in southern Iraq. There were indications on Sunday that tensions were rising between the American military and the followers of Mr. Sadr, the Shiite cleric who led an uprising against the occupation last month. Local leaders in Najaf said Sunday that American soldiers had arrested a senior aide to Mr. Sadr, Adnan al-Anaibi, after he was suspected of having broken into a human rights office in Babel. Near Najaf, an American was apprehended by a private security company on April 29 at a base where Iraqi munitions were being destroyed, company officials and the military said. The American, Jeffrey B. Mcvey, had been suspected of collaborating with Iraqi insurgents and was sought by the F.B.I. for unspecified "crimes against the coalition," said Michael A. Janke, chief operating officer of the company, Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group. Mr. Mcvey maintained that the F.B.I. allegation was the result of a misunderstanding, Mr. Janke said. A military official later said that Mr. Mcvey may be cleared of any wrongdoing. When he was taken into custody, Mr. Mcvey was carrying tags identifying him as working for a subcontractor to Parsons, a prime contractor to the United States Army Corps of Engineers. James Glanz contributed reporting from Des Moines for this article. nytimes.com CC