BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior Iraqi official warned yesterday that the escalating anti-American insurgency may delay work on the country's new constitution, slowing steps toward the U.S. administration's goal of a democratic government here.
The U.S. command yesterday announced the death of another soldier, who was killed late Saturday when his vehicle struck a land mine in Baghdad.
Three paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division were wounded in Fallujah, the military also reported. Witnesses said a British soldier was wounded yesterday by a land mine in the southern city of Basra.
Following the attacks in Fallujah, U.S. F-16 jets dropped three 500-pound bombs in the area late Saturday as part of an apparent new tactic of meeting armed resistance with massive shows of force.
We are on offensive operations
a U.S. officer said on condition of anonymity. You can expect to see an increase in the level of intensity and the amount of activity that is occurring especially in those 'challenging' areas.
Attacks against coalition forces picked up since last month, reversing a steady decline during the summer. Nearly half of the 150 American soldiers killed by hostile fire since President Bush declared an end to active combat in Iraq on May 1 have taken place in the past five weeks.
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