Attacks In Mosul Baquba Iraqi

Juan Cole 09/23/2003

Attacks in Mosul, Baquba

Iraqi eyewitnesses reported that an automobile exploded Monday in front of the police station in the northern city of Mosul, wounding a number of people. Guerrillas also mounted a mortar attack on US troops in the eastern city of Baquba, but it was not clear if they hurt any of them. (al-Zaman:

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page