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UN experts inspect Iraq nuclear site
Baghdad, June 08: UN experts were to continue their first post-war inspection of Iraq`s largest nuclear plant today after expressing fears that thousands were poisoned when the site was looted in the wake of the war.
Baghdad, June 08: UN experts were to continue their first post-war inspection of Iraq's largest nuclear plant today after expressing fears that thousands were poisoned when
the site was looted in the wake of the war.
In sporadic unrest that has gripped parts of Iraq since
Saddam Hussein's fall, a US soldier was killed and four others
were wounded yesterday in an attack near Saddam Hussein's
hometown of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, the US military's
Central Command (Centcom) said.
The troops came under fire with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
A US patrol also came under fire late yesterday on the northern edge of the tense city of Fallujah and returned fire killing one person, Centcom said, while a second attacker fled the scene.
The latest attack brought the death toll among US troops to 28 since the war was declared virtually ended on May 1.
Attacks on US troops have been frequent in Fallujah, 50 kilometers west of Baghdad, and on Thursday, one soldier was killed and five others wounded in an attack in the city.
The coalition earlier this week sent reinforcements to Fallujah and other hotspot areas west of the capital in an effort to control the unrest.
Also yesterday, the US-led administration warned Iraq's largest Shiite Muslim faction it needed to disarm its military wing or face the consequences.
The administration welcomed promises made by leaders of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI) that its militiamen would lay down their arms but had yet to see them being honoured on the ground.
Bureau Report
The troops came under fire with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
A US patrol also came under fire late yesterday on the northern edge of the tense city of Fallujah and returned fire killing one person, Centcom said, while a second attacker fled the scene.
The latest attack brought the death toll among US troops to 28 since the war was declared virtually ended on May 1.
Attacks on US troops have been frequent in Fallujah, 50 kilometers west of Baghdad, and on Thursday, one soldier was killed and five others wounded in an attack in the city.
The coalition earlier this week sent reinforcements to Fallujah and other hotspot areas west of the capital in an effort to control the unrest.
Also yesterday, the US-led administration warned Iraq's largest Shiite Muslim faction it needed to disarm its military wing or face the consequences.
The administration welcomed promises made by leaders of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI) that its militiamen would lay down their arms but had yet to see them being honoured on the ground.
Bureau Report