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What the story below does not report is that, according to NPR heard this morning, Iraqi children were around the Bradley vehicle that was burning, and were killed when the US helicopters fired on the site.<BR>
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Winning hearts and minds!<BR>
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Subj: <B>[Vision2020] How is the World Safer? (Iraq) </B> <BR>
Date: 9/13/2004 6:52:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time <BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A> <BR>
To: <A HREF="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">U.S. helicopters fire on crowd in Baghdad</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">An Iraqi policeman inspects damage done to the car of Lt. Col. Alaa al-Din Arif, who was killed after a car bomb exploded nearby, in Baghdad on Sunday. A car bomb detonated early Sunday in a western Baghdad neighborhood, killing two police officers on patrol, the Interior Ministry said. (Associated Press )</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">September 13, 2004</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">BAGHDAD, Iraq – Rebels on Sunday launched their most intense assault on central Baghdad in months, raining mortars on the U.S.-controlled Green Zone and exploding a car bomb to destroy an American armored vehicle. The day of violence left at least 59 Iraqis dead and injured scores more across the country.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In one incident, U.S. helicopters fired into a crowd gathered around the disabled Bradley fighting vehicle.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The airstrike, which the military said is under investigation, was captured on film when a correspondent for an Arabic-language television network was mortally wounded by shrapnel from the strike in the midst of taping a report. Reporter Mazen al-Tumeizi, 25, was talking into the camera, with flames and bystanders in the background, when a sharp blast buckled him forward. The camera swung away with blood on the lens, as al-Tumeizi yelled, "I am dying. I am dying."</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The images and the death toll provided a bleak illustration of the unremitting bloodshed left by Iraq's 17-month-old insurgency, proving that, more than two months after an interim Iraqi government took power with a pledge to bring security, rebels still strike the heart of the capital at will. By day's end, 25 Iraqis had died in Baghdad, while other clashes left 10 dead in the southern city of Hillah and 14 in the western city of Ramadi, according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">No U.S. deaths were reported Sunday, but six soldiers were wounded in the car bomb attack that destroyed the Bradley fighting vehicle, military officials said.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Three Polish soldiers were killed and at least three more were injured in fighting while returning from a demining mission near Hillah, Polish forces said. The deaths raised to 13 the number of Polish soldiers killed in Iraq.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Even as they fought in much of the country, U.S.-led troops said they had peacefully retaken the embattled city of Tal Afar early Sunday, three days after fierce clashes with insurgents closed off the city and sent thousands of residents fleeing.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Roughly 2,000 U.S. soldiers in high-tech Stryker armored vehicles headed into the city at 3:15 a.m. to root out militias and secure the city, spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Hastings said. U.S. troops stationed just outside Tal Afar had been involved in escalating battles and expected fierce resistance. But the troops secured the city without a struggle, Hastings said.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">U.S. commanders said they did not immediately know the whereabouts of an estimated 200 guerrillas who had been fighting American troops with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades, roadside bombs and mortars. During the past two weeks, fighting in Tal Afar, a remote northwest city near the Syrian border, killed an estimated 67 insurgents, officials said.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Outside Baghdad on Sunday, a suicide bomber attempted to ram his car into the gate of Abu Ghraib prison, but U.S. guards fired back and caused the car to explode before it breached the gate, the military said.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The most serious violence of the day was on Baghdad's Haifa Street, a main thoroughfare that is home largely to Palestinian and Syrian expatriates and has been a frequent site of clashes with U.S. troops. The slain journalist, Mazen al-Tumeizi, was one of those Palestinian immigrants who had settled in Baghdad with his family seven years ago.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">A 2002 graduate of Baghdad University, al-Tumeizi had found work last summer as a producer for Al-Arabiya television.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">After the airstrike, al-Tumeizi was rushed to a hospital with injuries to his back, leg and arm and died 90 minutes later, said Wehad Yacoub, Baghdad bureau manager for Al-Arabiya.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">On Sunday, al-Tumeizi was asleep at 4 a.m. when the rebels' mortar onslaught began, said his roommate, Rajih Khalil al-Talahma, who was injured in the U.S. airstrike.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">U.S. troops moved into the area, hiding behind trees and walls as they fought with guerrillas in the street and among apartment complexes, al-Talahma said. At 6:50 a.m., a U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle on its way to help a group of soldiers was hit by a car bomb, injuring two soldiers, the military said, and four others were wounded by grenades and gunfire during the evacuation.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">With the soldiers gone, a crowd swarmed the burning vehicle and celebrated, some hoisting a flag with "Unity and Holy War," the name of the militant group loyal to Jordanian rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has claimed responsibility for months of bombings, kidnappings and other attacks in Iraq.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Al-Tumeizi had raced to the scene from his apartment with a Reuters cameraman and the pair teamed up to tape a report. He was set to leave when he realized he had forgotten to film a sign-off that included his name and station identification.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">"He said, 'Let's go back,' " al-Tumeizi's roommate, his head bandaged and his leg broken, recalled at al Karch Hospital. "The cameraman didn't even set up a tripod because it was (to be) so short. Then we heard the helicopters."</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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