- A rocket has hit a hotel used by Western contractors
and journalists in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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- Smoke rose from the Sheraton hotel, after the hit on
the sixth floor, but no casualties were reported.
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- The Sheraton and nearby Palestine hotels are surrounded
by barriers and closely guarded by the US military.
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- The Iraqi capital has been subject to repeated missile
and bomb attacks, with 17 killed a week ago when a car bomb destroyed the
Mount Lebanon hotel.
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- "A rocket hit an air-conditioning unit on the sixth
floor and knocked down a small portion of a wall" about 0400 (0100GMT),
said an eyewitness quoted by the AFP news agency.
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- On Tuesday, at least 13 people died n a series of separate
attacks against police and security forces working with the US military
in the country.
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- Nine policemen and recruits were killed when attackers
opened fire on a minibus near Hilla, south of Baghdad, and two policemen
were shot at a police checkpoint in the northern city of Kirkuk.
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- In Mosul, two Iraqi civilians were killed in a mortar
attack on a base used by the new Iraqi army.
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- Correspondents say insurgents now appear to be attacking
Iraqi security forces in preference to US-led troops, because they are
easier targets and are seen as collaborating with the occupation.
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- © BBC MMIV
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3563027.stm
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