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Three Wounded in Baghdad Mosque Shooting
Aired September 05, 2003 - 10:03 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We move on to Iraq. A burst of gunfire has shattered this Muslim holy day. Gunmen opened fire outside of a mosque, wounding at least three people and stoking fears of religious conflict.
Today's attack in Baghdad comes one week to the day after the massive bombing of a Shiite mosque.
We go to the capital now, Baghdad, and our Ben Wedeman.
Ben -- hello.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF: Hello, Daryn.
Yes, that attack took place this morning in the Shab (ph) neighborhood of northern Baghdad at about 5:45 a.m., when three men drove up in a pickup truck. Apparently, they were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and handguns. They opened fire as people were coming out of the mosque. About 30 or 40 people were there, according to eyewitnesses. Three wounded. One, we are told, critically by -- this according to the Iraqi police that came to the scene shortly afterwards.
Now, this is a predominantly Shiite area with a Sunni mosque in it. It may have been the target of people basically conducting a revenge attack on what happened a week ago in Najaf. Of course, that's where those two massive car bombs went off on Friday, last Friday, outside of that mosque, killing at least 83 people.
Now, according to reports from Najaf today, there were about 10,000 people in a march that ended up at the Imam Ali mosque in that Shiite holy city, some of them shouting "death to America, death to the Baathists."
Meanwhile, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been touring the country. He was in Tikrit this morning -- Tikrit being the ancestral homeland of Saddam Hussein. There, he met with the troops. And afterwards, it is reported, he took a flight over the city of Mosul, where he was able to see from the air the house where Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a gun battle with American troops -- Daryn.
KAGAN: All right, Ben Wedeman in Baghdad, thank you for that.
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Aired September 5, 2003 - 10:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We move on to Iraq. A burst of gunfire has shattered this Muslim holy day. Gunmen opened fire outside of a mosque, wounding at least three people and stoking fears of religious conflict.
Today's attack in Baghdad comes one week to the day after the massive bombing of a Shiite mosque.
We go to the capital now, Baghdad, and our Ben Wedeman.
Ben -- hello.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF: Hello, Daryn.
Yes, that attack took place this morning in the Shab (ph) neighborhood of northern Baghdad at about 5:45 a.m., when three men drove up in a pickup truck. Apparently, they were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and handguns. They opened fire as people were coming out of the mosque. About 30 or 40 people were there, according to eyewitnesses. Three wounded. One, we are told, critically by -- this according to the Iraqi police that came to the scene shortly afterwards.
Now, this is a predominantly Shiite area with a Sunni mosque in it. It may have been the target of people basically conducting a revenge attack on what happened a week ago in Najaf. Of course, that's where those two massive car bombs went off on Friday, last Friday, outside of that mosque, killing at least 83 people.
Now, according to reports from Najaf today, there were about 10,000 people in a march that ended up at the Imam Ali mosque in that Shiite holy city, some of them shouting "death to America, death to the Baathists."
Meanwhile, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been touring the country. He was in Tikrit this morning -- Tikrit being the ancestral homeland of Saddam Hussein. There, he met with the troops. And afterwards, it is reported, he took a flight over the city of Mosul, where he was able to see from the air the house where Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a gun battle with American troops -- Daryn.
KAGAN: All right, Ben Wedeman in Baghdad, thank you for that.
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