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Many iraqis killed in US helicopter attack { April 12 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)
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Many Iraqis killed in US air attack
Tuesday 12 April 2005, 12:50 Makka Time, 9:50 GMT
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/12/rumsfeld_visits_iraq_to_warn_new_leaders_to_avoid_delays/
Rumsfeld visits Iraq to warn new leaders to avoid delays
By Robert Burns, Associated Press | April 12, 2005
Al Qaeda in Iraq, which previously said 10 of its fighters were killed attacking Abu Ghraib, also claimed to have carried out yesterday's suicide bomb assault on Camp Gannon, which is in the Qaim, near the Syrian border.
The two cars and the firetruck used in the attack exploded, wounding the three Marines and three civilians and causing slight damage to the concrete barriers and a nearby mosque, US officials said. Insurgents also fired at the camp, and a US attack helicopter destroyed a car carrying a gunman, officials said. It was unclear how many insurgents and suicide bombers were killed in the assault.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002238718_iraq12.html
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 12:21 A.M. Pacific
New tactic seen in attack on Marine base
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Washington Post
An Iraqi insurgent commander with al-Zarqawi's group who claimed he helped lead the Abu Ghraib assault recently said the movement had been scouting Anbar province in search of a U.S. base to attack with suicide bombers and heavy weapons. Yesterday's assault was in Anbar province.
Fighting also was reported yesterday in the town of Qaim a few miles inside the border. Al-Zarqawi's group claimed on its Web site to be in control of the town, and there were reports of several deaths. There was no indication that U.S. forces were involved.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43621-2005Apr11.html
Insurgents Attack U.S. Base In Iraq
Large-Scale Assault Is Second Within 2 Weeks; Contractor Abducted
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 12, 2005; Page A15
The raid Monday was on Camp Gannon, a U.S. base at Husaybah, a few yards from the Syrian border near the Euphrates River. U.S. Cobra attack helicopters fired on the insurgents to repel simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers and armed fighters, officials said. A second car bomb exploded 15 minutes after the first assault, "at the same entrance, while the soldiers were busy rescuing the wounded," Capt. Saad Abdul Fattah of the Iraqi army said.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/09413EAB-D8E4-4C03-A52C-BD7118AC9946.htm
Many Iraqis killed in US air attack
Tuesday 12 April 2005, 12:50 Makka Time, 9:50 GMT
Twenty Iraqis have been killed and 22 injured after US helicopters and heavy artillery bombed houses in al-Rummana village north of al-Qaim city.
Seven children, six women and three old men were among the dead, witnesses said, while the injured included 13 children, seven women and two old men.
The witnesses added that the shelling started after US forces, who landed near al-Qaim on Monday night, came under several attacks.
Early reports indicated one house was completely destroyed and three others partially damaged in the bombing, Aljazeera learned.
On Monday, five car bombs hit US military targets in the western Iraqi city of al-Qaim near the border with Syria, wounding at least two US soldiers.
Iraqi journalist Ahmed Khalid told Aljazeera that two of Monday's attacks were simultaneous. Three bombs hit a building used as a US military headquarters, while a fourth targeted a US military convoy.
Clashes erupted later between fighters and US troops in the city, damaging a number of houses, the journalist said.
However, no civilians were injured in those clashes as they had fled.
A spokesperson for the US marines said on Monday three of their soldiers were wounded in the attack, which occurred outside Camp Gannon, a base in al-Qaim, about 300km west of Baghdad in al-Anbar province.
Kirkuk attack
Late on Monday, armed men opened fire on a police patrol in the northeastern Iraq city of Kirkuk, injuring two members of the security service, police Brigadier Sarhat Kadier said.
Attackers also placed a bomb in the undercarriage of a doctor's car, but the device exploded as the physician entered a Kirkuk store to buy bread, sparing him but wounding two nearby civilians, Kadir said.
It was not known why attackers targeted the doctor.
Also on Monday, the US embassy in Iraq announced that an American contractor working on a reconstruction project had been captured.
Polish troop withdrawal
Meanwhile, Poland's defence minister said the government wants its troops to leave Iraq in the first weeks of 2006 after the authorising United Nations resolution expires.
"It is the government's opinion that, together with the end of the UN mandate for the stabilisation mission, all the activity of the Polish stabilisation mission should also end," said Defence Minister Jerzy Smajdzinski.
Poland, one of Washington's closest allies in Europe, runs a multi-national stabilisation force in south-central Iraq, where it has about 1700 soldiers.
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