Monday, August 18, 2003

IRAQI RESISTANCE

AP: Groups Want Probe in Iraq Shooting Death
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Journalism watchdogs called for an investigation Monday into the killing of a Reuters cameraman by U.S. troops. The military offered condolences, calling the shooting a mistake, but said its soldiers will not fire warning shots if they believe there is a threat.

In other developments Monday:

- A suspicious fire continued to rage on Iraq's main northern oil export pipeline into Turkey, the U.S. Army said. Accounts varied over whether the blaze was accidental or an act of sabotage. It would take at least 10 days to repair the damaged pipeline, 4th Infantry Division spokeswoman Maj. Jocelyn Aberle said.

- Many neighborhoods in the north of Baghdad remained without water a day after a bomb blew an enormous hole in a water main.

- Huge fires burned in warehouses in northeast Baghdad, where 50 gunmen looted spare parts from buses and other state vehicles and set fires, a guard told The Associated Press. Mohammed Jabber said an American Army patrol passed the area about 30 minutes later but took no action.

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