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Lethal weekend for United States in Iraq
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Thirteen more of its troops die
BAGHDAD, December 4.— The deaths
of 12 U.S. soldiers in Iraq this past weekend has
increased the number of U.S. casualties just prior
to a meeting between the head of the Iraqi Shiite
coalition, Abdel Aziz Hakim and U.S. President
George W. Bush in Washington, the AFP reported.
 The
weekend was a bloody one for U.S. forces, which lost
13 men, raising the figure of fatal U.S. casualties
in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,904.
A Marine Corps CH-46 helicopter
crashed on Sunday in a lake in Al Anbar province in
western Iraq with 16 people on board, four of whom
have died, the Army announced on Monday.
BBC radio broadcast an interview
with Kofi Annan in which the UN secretary general
affirmed that the situation in Iraq is “far worse”
than a civil war.
Almost 68% of people in the
United States believe that Iraq is in a “civil war,”
an expression rejected by the White House, according
to a survey published on Monday.
(Translated by Granma
International) |
