One Us Soldier Wounded One Iraqi

Juan Cole 10/09/2003

One US soldier Wounded, One Iraqi Policemen Killed and another Wounded

Guerillas fired rocket-propelled grenades at a US convoy near Balad on Wednesday, wounding one US soldier. In Kirkuk, guerrillas fired an rpg at an Iraqi police checkpoint, killing one policeman and wounding another. In the south, guerrillas fired a light mortar round at the HQ of the British 19th Brigade, but caused no casualties.

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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