4 Americans Killed In Iraq Guerrillas

Juan Cole 11/15/2003

4 Americans Killed in Iraq

Guerrillas killed two soldiers and wounded three with an explosive charge aimed at their convoy north of Baghdad on Friday.

Friday morning, guerrillas launched a similar bomb attack in central Baghdad, wounding a 1st Armored Division soldier, who later died from shrapnel.

Late Thursday, attackers opened fire on US civilians working for the US army, killing one and wounding another man.

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