One Us Soldier Killed 5 Wounded In Iraq

Juan Cole 10/21/2003

One US soldier Killed, 5 wounded in Iraq

Guerrillas exploded an improvised explosive device as a patrol of the 82nd Airborne Division was passing near Fallujah on Monday at 1 pm Iraq time, then attacked with small arms fire (the typical tactic of the low-grade guerrilla war). This was the third attack in two days in the vicinity of Fallujah.

In Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police apprehended an assassin planning to kill the deputy governor of Diyala province. He was trying to plant a bomb under his car. (AFP)

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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