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Deadly Weekend in Iraq
Aired December 29, 2003 - 06:07 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's bring you up to date now on what's happening in Iraq. Coalition forces have now detained five people in connection with a series of deadly weekend car bomb attacks in Karbala. Seven coalition soldiers and 12 Iraqis were killed.
CNN's Karl Penhaul joins us from the Iraqi capital with the latest.
Hello -- Karl.
KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
Yes, we've been talking to Polish commanders this morning based down in Karbala and in charge of that multinational force there. They tell us that overnight they detained five people.
Now, what they're not telling us so far are the identities or the nationalities of those people, because when we were down in Karbala yesterday. The Polish general there said that given the nature of these devastating suicide bombings that he suspected that there were foreign fighters involved. He suggested that possibly even forces linked to al Qaeda may have been involved in these attacks.
So, whereas we do know that five people have been detained, we don't know their nationalities.
In addition to the death toll that you mentioned from those attacks, one should also state that more than 160 people were wounded in those bombings.
Now, on the subject of foreign fighters, Carol, I've also been on the phone to the 101st Airborne in the northern city of Mosul this morning. They say that in an overnight gunfight, three suspected members of the Al Anwar al-Islam militant group were killed in a firefight when they opened fire on U.S. troops. Two U.S. soldiers were wounded in that firefight.
Anwar al-Islam, as you remember, is one of these groups that Washington accuses of being affiliated to al Qaeda -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Karl Penhaul reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired December 29, 2003 - 06:07 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's bring you up to date now on what's happening in Iraq. Coalition forces have now detained five people in connection with a series of deadly weekend car bomb attacks in Karbala. Seven coalition soldiers and 12 Iraqis were killed.
CNN's Karl Penhaul joins us from the Iraqi capital with the latest.
Hello -- Karl.
KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
Yes, we've been talking to Polish commanders this morning based down in Karbala and in charge of that multinational force there. They tell us that overnight they detained five people.
Now, what they're not telling us so far are the identities or the nationalities of those people, because when we were down in Karbala yesterday. The Polish general there said that given the nature of these devastating suicide bombings that he suspected that there were foreign fighters involved. He suggested that possibly even forces linked to al Qaeda may have been involved in these attacks.
So, whereas we do know that five people have been detained, we don't know their nationalities.
In addition to the death toll that you mentioned from those attacks, one should also state that more than 160 people were wounded in those bombings.
Now, on the subject of foreign fighters, Carol, I've also been on the phone to the 101st Airborne in the northern city of Mosul this morning. They say that in an overnight gunfight, three suspected members of the Al Anwar al-Islam militant group were killed in a firefight when they opened fire on U.S. troops. Two U.S. soldiers were wounded in that firefight.
Anwar al-Islam, as you remember, is one of these groups that Washington accuses of being affiliated to al Qaeda -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Karl Penhaul reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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