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Rockets hit Baghdad hotel where Wolfowitz was staying
Baghdad, Oct 26: Anti-American guerrillas attacked the Baghdad hotel where US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying on Sunday with a barrage of rockets, but the cabinet member survived the blasts, US officials said.
Baghdad, Oct 26: Anti-American guerrillas attacked the
Baghdad hotel where US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was
staying on Sunday with a barrage of rockets, but the cabinet member
survived the blasts, US officials said.
At least three people were wounded -- two of whom were carried
away on stretchers -- said a journalist at the Rashid Hotel,
where the attack occurred at about 6 am local time.
Wolfowitz was unharmed and led away by security forces, according to a US defense official at the scene. Witnesses said he looked composed.
A US military spokesman in Baghdad, Sgt. Danny Martin, said six to eight rockets hit the Rashid Hotel on the west side of the building. He had no word on casualties.
Wolfowitz, a major force behind the Iraq war, was paying his second visit to Iraq in three months and stressed the need to speed up the formation of a new Iraqi army, police force, border guard and civil defense corps.
The Rashid Hotel is part of a compound on the West Bank of the Tigris River used by the US-led administration.
It is in a fortified complex that includes palaces built by former leader Saddam Hussein and his elite troops.
Three rockets fired at the hotel by guerrillas on September 27 hit the building but no one was wounded.
Bureau Report
Wolfowitz was unharmed and led away by security forces, according to a US defense official at the scene. Witnesses said he looked composed.
A US military spokesman in Baghdad, Sgt. Danny Martin, said six to eight rockets hit the Rashid Hotel on the west side of the building. He had no word on casualties.
Wolfowitz, a major force behind the Iraq war, was paying his second visit to Iraq in three months and stressed the need to speed up the formation of a new Iraqi army, police force, border guard and civil defense corps.
The Rashid Hotel is part of a compound on the West Bank of the Tigris River used by the US-led administration.
It is in a fortified complex that includes palaces built by former leader Saddam Hussein and his elite troops.
Three rockets fired at the hotel by guerrillas on September 27 hit the building but no one was wounded.
Bureau Report