Guerrillas Wound 8 Us Soldiers Kill 8

Juan Cole 09/26/2003

Guerrillas wound 8 US Soldiers; Kill 8 Iraqis

Guerrillas wounded 8 US soldiers on Thursday, leaving one in critical and two in serious condition. Two roadside bombs blasted their convoy in or near Mosul as it went by. On Thursday night, guerrillas fired mortars into a Baquba market, killing 8 Iraqis and wounding 13.

Donald Rumsfeld’s comparison of Iraq to Washington DC in terms of the security situation was always ridiculous (and implicitly racist), but it looks less and less plausible as time has gone on. If these kind of events were happening daily in Washington DC, it would be a national crisis of enormous proportions.

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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