4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WORLD
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006
Claudio Lattanzio/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Italian Carabinieri paramilitary officer places an Italian flag on a wall in Sulmona, Italy, the town of Italian Carabinieri warrant officer Franco Lattanzio, who was killed earlier in a bomb blast in Nasiriyah on Thursday. A bomb blasted an Italian convoy on a road in southern Iraq, killing four people and seriously injuring one more, the Defense Ministry said.
Three Italians Romanian die in Iraq blast
BY MARIA SANMINIATELLI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME — A bomb blast rocked an Italian convoy on a road in southern Iraq on Thursday, killing four people — three Italian soldiers and one from Romania, the Defense Ministry said.
An officer with the Carabinier was seriously wounded and was taken to a U.S. hospital about 93 miles from Kuwait City, Defense Minister Antonio Martino said.
The roadside bomb targeted a four-vehicle convoy carrying 17 troops to relieve those at the local Iraqi police station in the city of Nasirivah.
Romano Prodi, who will head the next Italian government, said he had no plans to speed up Italy's withdrawal because of the bombing. Prodi had opposed the war and has pledged
to bring italian troops home by the end of the year.
"Our position is not changed." Prodi said at a news conference at his coalition's headquarters. "We've discussed it with the whole coalition."
Prodi's extreme left coalition allies seized on the news to criticize Premier Silvio Berlusconi's decision to send troops to Iraq and to demand a quicker withdrawal.
"Today's attack that caused the deaths of Italian soldiers is an additional loss that Berlusconi's wicked choice to stand by his friend Bush brings today to our country." Communist law-maker Marco Rizzo was quoted as saying by the Apcom news agency.
Prodi said Italy would stay the course in Iraq.
"We won't fly away," he said. "Of course we shall work in Iraq for peace."
WORLD
Khalid Mohammed/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iraqi soldiers stand guard as men carry the coffin of Mayson Ahmed Bakir al-Hashimi, 60, the sister of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who was shot dead along with her bodyguard Saad Ali on Thursday in Baghdad, Iraq. A sister of Iraq's new Sunni Arab vice president was killed in a drive-by shooting, one day after her brother called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force.
Iraq VP's sister dies in drive-by
BY THOMAS WAGNER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sister of Iraq's new Sunni Arab vice president was killed Thursday in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, a day after the politician called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force.
In southern Iraq, a bomb hit an Italian military convoy, killing four soldiers — three Italians and a Romanian — and seriously injuring another passenger, officials in Rome said. The bomb struck the convoy near an Italian military base in Nasiriyah, a heavily Shiite city
200 miles southeast of Baghdad, said local Iraqi government spokesman Haidr Radhi.
Elsewhere, a U.S. jet fired two missiles at insurgent positions in Ramadi, U.S. officers said. Fighting also broke out northeast of Baghdad between Iraqi forces and insurgents.
The violence came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were visiting Baghdad to meet with officials in the new Iraqi government.
Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite hard-liner recently tapped as Iraq's prime minister, is trying to form a national unity government aimed at stopping a wave of sectarian violence.
Al-Maliki has 30 days to assemble a Cabinet from divided Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties. The most contentious question will be filling key ministries that control security forces amid demands to purge them of militias blamed for the rise in sectarian bloodshed.
Mayson Ahmed Bakir al-Hashimi, 60, whose brother, Tariq al-Hashimi, was appointed by parliament as vice president Saturday, was killed by unidentified gunmen in a sedan as she was leaving her southwestern Baghdad home with her bodyguard, said police Capt. Jamel Hussein.
The bodyguard, Saad Ali, also died. Hussein said.
It was the second recent killing in Tariq al-Hashimi's immediate family. On April 13, his brother, Mahmoud al-Hashimi, was shot while driving in a mostly Shite area of eastern Baghdad.
On Thursday, two of the vice president's brothers, one an army officer, raced to the scene to recover the body of their sister, Hussein said. She had worked on the government's audit commission and was married with two grown children.
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Friends With Money (R)
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Silent Hill (R)
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