Two Americn troops were injured early Wednesday in a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack in Samarra, 100 kilometres north of Baghdad, an American military spokesman said. "Early this morning, two soldiers were wounded in an RPG attack in Samarra," said Specialist Brian Sharkey.
Meanwhile, a US tank was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade on the western outskirts of Fallujah Wednesday morning, the latest in a spate of attacks in this town, located some 50 kilometers west of the Iraqi capital city. The ambush caused little damage, witnesses said.
Elsewhere, in Baquba, 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, US troops were pulled from guard duties outside the town's hospitals after a string of attacks, most notably a grenade blast on Saturday that killed three soldiers posted by the children's hospital, medical sources said.
In Pakistan, Geo-TV aired an interview with Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in which he again raised U.S. concerns about foreign fighters among the resistance cell in Iraq.
"Certainly we know that there are foreign fighters that have flowed in through Syria, and in fact, 80 of them were engaged several weeks ago in a training camp, and they were not Iraqis," Myers said.
On Tuesday, the US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said that there were "some indications" that Lebanon's Hizbullah may be trying "to harm our interests in an already confused situation" in Iraq.
He did not offer any specifics but said foreign fighters from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and Syria had been involved in armed attacks against US forces in Iraq. (Albawaba.com)
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