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| Wednesday, 18 February 2004 |
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Two US soldiers killed as Chinese team visits Iraq BAGHDAD, Tuesday (AFP) Two US soldiers died in separate attacks Monday as a first official Chinese delegation visited post-Saddam Iraq and NATO seemed unlikely to decide this year on any deployment in the country. Two children died Monday in Iraq, in what a senior US army official said was a bomb attack on a primary school in Baghdad. A rebel group claiming to represent Islamist militants in the restive town of Fallujah, meanwhile, denied any involvement in a raid that killed 23 policemen Saturday and called for a halt to all attacks on Iraqi security forces. A military policeman from the US Army 1st Armored Division died and another was wounded when a crude bomb exploded as a three-vehicle convoy passed through the center of the capital, the US-led coalition said. Only 20 minutes later, another US soldier was killed and four others wounded in a bomb attack in Baquba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the military said. In Baghdad, China's first delegation of diplomats since the US-led invasion arrived Monday to prepare for the re-opening of the Chinese embassy. The 13-member delegation is headed by charge d'affaires Sun Bigan and comprises diplomats from the commerce and foreign ministries and six armed Chinese policemen. China, a permanent UN Security Council member that opposed the war to oust Saddam Hussein, has long been keen to muscle in on the lucrative post-war phase and the team is expected to seek reconstruction contracts. |
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