U.S. Mideast Commander Escapes Iraq RPG Attack

Close call:

The U.S. commander in the Middle East, General John
Abizaid, escaped unharmed from a rocket-propelled grenade attack in
Iraq on Thursday, the U.S. army said. "At 1330 in Falluja, General
Abizaid and General (Charles) Swannack were visiting a local Iraqi
civil defense corps compound when three rocket-propelled grenades were
fired at their convoy from rooftops nearby," Brigadier-General Mark
Kimmitt told a news conference. "No coalition soldiers or civilians
were injured." Kimmitt, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said
American forces returned fire and unsuccessfully pursued the
assailants.
Abizaid is the third high-profile American official to escape an attack
in Iraq. The others are U.S. administrator Paul Bremer, whose convoy
was attacked in December, and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz,
whose Baghdad hotel was hit by rockets.

Posted by flow Frazao on February 12, 2004 at 10:40 AM | Permalink