- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas
fired rockets at the headquarters of the U.S.-led administration in central
Baghdad Tuesday and loudspeakers ordered personnel in the compound to take
cover as explosions echoed across the Iraqi capital.
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- "Attack. Take cover. This is not a test," warned
loudspeakers at the compound in one of Saddam Hussein's former palace complexes.
Sirens wailed, flares lit up the night sky and U.S. helicopters clattered
overhead.
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- A spokesman for the U.S. 1st Armored Division which patrols
Baghdad said at least two rockets had been fired. One crashed through the
roof of an empty apartment building near the coalition compound and another
landed near a bus station.
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- "There are no reports of U.S. soldiers being injured,
or of civilian casualties" the spokesman said.
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- But he said two Iraqi police were wounded in a rocket-propelled
grenade attack near a Baghdad petrol station.
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- Guerrilla attacks in Iraq have become increasingly brazen.
Saturday, a DHL cargo plane made an emergency landing in Baghdad with an
engine on fire after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. A video tape
delivered to a French journalist apparently showed the missile being fired.
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- The footage showed several men with their faces concealed
by scarves, carrying grenade and missile launchers. One aimed a shoulder-fired
missile at a plane.
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- The attackers were shown escaping by car, and the tape
then showed a plane descending with smoke pouring from one wing.
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- ATTACKS ON U.S. TROOPS DOWN
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- A top U.S. general said earlier Tuesday that tougher
U.S. tactics had halved the number of attacks on his forces in Iraq in
the past two weeks, but that assaults on Iraqis had surged.
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