[A-List] Fw: Baghdad: 25 Marines Dead, Hurt; Corpses In Streets; City In Chaos

["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Baghdad: 25 Marines Dead, Hurt; Corpses In Streets; City In Chaos


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http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=3165525&startrow=1&date=2
003-04-11&do_alert=0
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> Russian Information Agency (Novosti)
> April 11, 2003
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> 3 U.S. MARINES DEAD, 22 WOUNDED BY IRAQI SUICIDE
> BOMBER
>
> -"I don't like Bush, but I obey orders."
>
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> MADRID, April 11, 2003. /From RIA Novosti
> correspondent Juan Cobo/--3 US marines died and 22
> were wounded when an Iraqi suicide bomber blew himself
> up in central Baghdad on Thursday evening, Olga
> Rodriguez of Spain's most popular radio channel Cadena
> Ser cited the US military as saying.
>
> The mighty explosion went off in front of the Hotel
> Palestine, which accommodates about 200 reporters from
> different countries. The suicide bomber had stepped
> out of a taxi at a checkpoint crowded with US soldiers
> and set off his bomb.
>
> The Spanish reporter said there were clashes and
> sounds of salvoes and bursts of gunfire in the south
> and north of the Iraqi capital. The streets were
> littered with corpses of men and women, she said.
>
> Rodriguez reported also that the US military had
> advised reporters to stay in the hotel because they
> could not guarantee their safety in a city where
> "liberated pillagers exulted in robbing stores and
> public institutions," as she put it. She added that
> Baghdad was in chaos as the population grew
> increasingly critical of the US troops, who were
> unable to establish law and order.
>
> The reporter said that the US officer who had
> recommended her to stay indoors had said, "I don't
> like Bush, but I obey orders."
>
>
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