Military

DATE= 9/10/2003

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE= IRAQ ATTACKS (S)

NUMBER=2-307329

BYLINE= SCOTT BOBB

DATELINE= BAGHDAD

CONTENT=

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INTRO: U-S military officials say a car bomb has exploded in northern Iraq, killing one Iraqi and wounding at least 47 people, including six Americans. VOA Correspondent Scott Bobb reports from Baghdad the incident came amid a continuing series of attacks on U-S targets, including one that left an American soldier dead on Tuesday.

TEXT: The bombing was late Tuesday night in the northern city of Arbil outside a building used by the U-S-led coalition. A military official said the injured Americans worked for the U-S Defense Department.

Earlier, a U-S soldier was killed and another was wounded in an attack on a supply convoy in northeast Baghdad. Five other American soldiers were also wounded in two attacks in the western part of the Iraqi capital.

It was the first U-S death in a week, but more than two dozen American soldiers have been wounded in the past three days. U-S officials say there are an average of 12 attacks on coalition forces in Iraq each day.

Meanwhile, members of Iraqi's interim Governing Council welcomed the decision by the Arab League to admit their delegation to the foreign ministers meeting in Cairo. (signed)

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