Wired News

10/26/05

Iraqi Sunni leaders said on Wednesday they would focus on pressing U.S. forces to pull out after failing to block a controversial constitution, hoping a U.S. death toll of 2,000 will encourage Washington to withdraw. 'Our political program will focus more on getting the Americans out of Iraq,' Hussein al-Falluji, a prominent Sunni who took part in talks on the constitution, told Reuters. 'Our message to the American administration is clear: get out of Iraq or set a timetable for withdrawal or the resistance will keep slaughtering your soldiers until judgment day.' ... Insurgents have resumed deadly attacks again after a relative lull in violence during the referendum and the trial of Saddam Hussein last week. Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of bodyguards for Iraq's minister of water resources in western Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding two people. Police said that the minister, Abdul Latif Rasheed, was not present. Gunmen also killed an official at Iraq's Ministry of Culture, Nabil Moussawi, and seriously wounded his driver in southern Baghdad. Insurgents, who struck in dramatic fashion on Monday with a triple suicide bomb attack on a Baghdad hotel used by foreign journalists, set off new blasts on Tuesday in Baghdad and the normally tranquil city of Sulaimaniya, killing at least 15 people...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp