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More Violence in Iraq

Aired January 25, 2004 - 07:06   ET

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: In Iraq this morning, more violence. And U.S. troops round up a half dozen suspects after an American soldier is killed north of Tikrit. Our Baghdad bureau chief is Jane Arraf. She's joining us now live from there.
Good morning, Jane.

JANE ARRAF, CNN BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Heidi. It has been a bloody weekend in Iraq. Now another U.S. soldier has died Sunday, following an attack on Saturday, a rocket propelled grenade attack on his convoy near Beiji, north of Tikrit.

Now this follows five other U.S. soldiers being killed and at least four Iraqis dying in separate attacks by insurgents in the so- called Sunni Triangle, that area in and around Baghdad where Saddam Hussein support was the strongest. And as you mentioned, this is against a backdrop, this fragile security, of uncertainty over where this country is going towards democracy.

A U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to announce on Monday whether the U.N. will play a key role in seeing whether elections are feasible. Now U.N. security people are here on the ground in Baghdad, trying to determine whether it's safe for U.N. international staff to come back after a major car bomb killed almost two dozen of them late last year -- Heidi?

COLLINS: Jane Arraf, live from Baghdad. Jane, thanks so much.

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Aired January 25, 2004 - 07:06   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: In Iraq this morning, more violence. And U.S. troops round up a half dozen suspects after an American soldier is killed north of Tikrit. Our Baghdad bureau chief is Jane Arraf. She's joining us now live from there.
Good morning, Jane.

JANE ARRAF, CNN BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Heidi. It has been a bloody weekend in Iraq. Now another U.S. soldier has died Sunday, following an attack on Saturday, a rocket propelled grenade attack on his convoy near Beiji, north of Tikrit.

Now this follows five other U.S. soldiers being killed and at least four Iraqis dying in separate attacks by insurgents in the so- called Sunni Triangle, that area in and around Baghdad where Saddam Hussein support was the strongest. And as you mentioned, this is against a backdrop, this fragile security, of uncertainty over where this country is going towards democracy.

A U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to announce on Monday whether the U.N. will play a key role in seeing whether elections are feasible. Now U.N. security people are here on the ground in Baghdad, trying to determine whether it's safe for U.N. international staff to come back after a major car bomb killed almost two dozen of them late last year -- Heidi?

COLLINS: Jane Arraf, live from Baghdad. Jane, thanks so much.

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