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Iraq Attacks Escalate; U.S. Presses Self-Government – Attacks by Saddam Hussein loyalists and other unidentified insurgents in Iraq grew more deadly in November. Sixteen U.S.soldiers died and 20 were injured NOV.2 after Guerrillas shot down a Chinook helicopter near Falluja, 30 miles west of Baghdad, with a surface-to-air missile. A 2nd missile narrowly missed hitting a 2nd Chinook. A Black Hawk helicopter exploded and crashed Nov.7 in Tikrit, killing the 6 American soldiers aboard.
In response, U.S. tanks, howitzers, and planes Nov.7-8 struck an area in trikrit from which guerrilla attacks had been launched, and U.S. aircraft struck at 2 targets in Baghdad Nov. 12. Pres. George W. Bush declared Nov. 3 that “ America will never run ” from Iraq, and in a Nov. 6 speech, he called on Middle East states to embrace a democratic tradition and recognize that the outster of Saddam Hussein was “a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”
U.S. hopes for a broader military force in Iraq were set back Nov. 7 when Turkey withdrew its offer of troops, which Iraq’s Governing Council had opposed.
In Nasiriya, Nov.12 a truck and car crashed into a building housing Italian military police; 19 Italians and 13 Iraqis were killed and more than 100 people were wounded.
The senior U.S. commander in the Middle East, Gen. John Abizaid, said Nov. 13 that the coalition faced 5,000 guerrilla fighters in Iraq who were getting better organized and financed. At least 17 U.S. soldiers were killed 2 days later when two Black Hawk helicopters collided over the northen city of Mosul and crashed. One soldier was missing and 5 others were injured. U.S. forces were reacted by strikes against sites believed to have been staging areas for attacks. Bombs at 2 police stations near Baghdad killed 14 people.
U.S. officials Nov. 14 confirmed that the administration now supported an acceleration of the move toward Iraqi self-government even before a new
Iraq Attacks Escalate; U.S. Presses Self-Government – Attacks by Saddam Hussein loyalists and other unidentified insurgents in Iraq grew more deadly in November. Sixteen U.S.soldiers died and 20 were injured NOV.2 after Guerrillas shot down a Chinook helicopter near Falluja, 30 miles west of Baghdad, with a surface-to-air missile. A 2nd missile narrowly missed hitting a 2nd Chinook. A Black Hawk helicopter exploded and crashed Nov.7 in Tikrit, killing the 6 American soldiers aboard.
In response, U.S. tanks, howitzers, and planes Nov.7-8 struck an area in trikrit from which guerrilla attacks had been launched, and U.S. aircraft struck at 2 targets in Baghdad Nov. 12. Pres. George W. Bush declared Nov. 3 that “ America will never run ” from Iraq, and in a Nov. 6 speech, he called on Middle East states to embrace a democratic tradition and recognize that the outster of Saddam Hussein was “a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”
U.S. hopes for a broader military force in Iraq were set back Nov. 7 when Turkey withdrew its offer of troops, which Iraq’s Governing Council had opposed.
In Nasiriya, Nov.12 a truck and car crashed into a building housing Italian military police; 19 Italians and 13 Iraqis were killed and more than 100 people were wounded.
The senior U.S. commander in the Middle East, Gen. John Abizaid, said Nov. 13 that the coalition faced 5,000 guerrilla fighters in Iraq who were getting better organized and financed. At least 17 U.S. soldiers were killed 2 days later when two Black Hawk helicopters collided over the northen city of Mosul and crashed. One soldier was missing and 5 others were injured. U.S. forces were reacted by strikes against sites believed to have been staging areas for attacks. Bombs at 2 police stations near Baghdad killed 14 people.
U.S. officials Nov. 14 confirmed that the administration now supported an acceleration of the move toward Iraqi self-government even before a new