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The year begins with U.S. casualties in Iraq
BEIRUT, December 2. — The first
two deadly casualties, one on Monday, and another on
Tuesday, were acknowledged by the U.S. military
command in Baghdad, which said in a press release
that they were both caused by ambushes with
explosives.
 The
communiqué, according to PL, acknowledged that three
other soldiers were injured during the second clash
in a town southeast of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital,
where disturbances with an unknown cause occurred.
Likewise, the spokesman
acknowledged the deaths of three civilians, which he
justified by saying they were members of the Al
Qaeda organization, the same description applied to
six people killed on Monday in an attack on the
offices of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue.
The president of that group,
Saleh al Mutlaq, in Jordan, denied the U.S.
allegations, and said that the six people killed
were members of a family, including two minors.
It was also learned, via the
Internet, that Izzat Ibrahim, designated chief of
the Supreme Command in Iraq (without specifying of
what organization), after the execution of former
President Saddam Hussein on Saturday, called for
“creating a united front of Jihad (holy war) and
resistance.”
Ibrahim was the No. 2 man in Iraq
under the Hussein government and is still free,
despite a multimillion-dollar reward on his head
offered by the United States for whoever can provide
information leading to his capture.
(Translated by Granma International)
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