Us Hq In Kirkuk Comes Under Fire

Juan Cole 01/16/2004

US HQ in Kirkuk comes under Fire; Civilians killed by bomb near Tikrit

al-Hayat: Guerrillas launched an RPG attack in Karbala, with no casualties reported. Guerrillas fired a Katyusha rocket at the US HQ in Kirkuk.

“TIKRIT, January 16 (Online): An anti-tank mine planted along a road in Tikrit blew up when a passenger bus went over it Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring one, the US military said. In other violence in the area, US troops killed seven alleged insurgents in three separate clashes on Wednesday, the military said.’

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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