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U.S. begins Iron Hammer’
attacks against Iraqi rebels
After numerous attacks on
U.S. soldiers, the U.S. military
began shelling areas in Iraq
By Drew Brown and Jeff Wilkinson
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. forces on
Thursday stepped up a bold yet risky
new offensive to stamp out the Iraqi
insurgency.
Shelling began at dusk — sending
shock waves through the capital —
as American soldiers fired at least
eight mortar shells into a clothes
dyeing factory that had been at
tacked the night before.
At 7 p.m., 1st Armored Division
soldiers fired mortar and artillery
shells at two more sites in Baghdad
that officials suspected had been used
to launch rockets and mortars at
coalition compounds, Capt. Dave
Gercken, a spokesman for the 1st Ar
mored Division, said.
The attacks — part of operation
"Iron Hammer" — mark an aggres
sive new attempt by coalition forces
to beat back an insurgency that has
caused 156 U.S. combat deaths since
May 1, when President Bush de
clared major combat operations
over. U.S. forces have recently been
subject to about 35 attacks daily
throughout Iraq, and insurgents
have launched a series of deadly sui
cide attacks aimed at undermining
the U.S. effort and driving foreigners
from the country.
The U.S. counterattack, however,
risks alienating Iraqis should civilians
be caught in the crossfire.
In a separate attack Thursday
night, an AC-130U "Spooky" gun
ship used 105 mm cannons and 40
mm machine guns to destroy a for
mer Republican Guard building in
Baghdad's al Farat neighborhood.
Dozens of distant explosions could
be heard around 9:30 p.m.
Gercken said insurgents had used
the building to attack the 1st Ar
mored Division.
Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the
commander of the 1st Armored Divi
sion, said the operations were based on
an analysis of recent patterns of enemy
activity and were designed with enough
precision to minimize civilian casual
ties. 'Throughout this operation we are
communicating with the Iraqi people
to let them know that these combat op
erations are being executed on their be
half," Dempsey said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, coalition officials
moved to secure Baghdad by closing
the 14th of July Bridge.
Operation "Iron Hammer" began
Wednesday night after 1 st Armored Di
vision soldiers saw mortar rounds be
ing fired from a van in the gritty town
of Abu Ghraib, about 15 miles west of
Baghdad. An Apache helicopter gun
ship followed the van out of town and
attacked it, killing two suspected guer
rillas and injuring three others. Five oth
er suspected insurgents were captured,
along with an 82 mm mortar tube, said
Ft. Col. George Krivo, a coalition mili
tary spokesman.
About a half-hour later, Bradley
armored vehicles from the 2nd Ar
mored Calvary Regiment and an AC
130 "Spectre" gunship destroyed the
"Al Jazeera Clothes Dyeing Company"
in the southern Baghdad suburb of Sa
dia. Krivo said intelligence indicated
that insurgents were storing mortar
rounds and other munitions there. A
Defense Department statement issued
in Washington said the warehouse was
a “known meeting, planning, storage
and rendezvous point for belligerent el
ements currently conducting attacks on
coalition forces and infrastructure."
In a third strike, soldiers with the
1st Armored Division fired 155 mm
howitzer shells at a "terrorist mortar
team" that had lobbed several rounds
in the direction of the Green Zone, as
the main coalition compound in
Baghdad is known.
Some fear moves against the insur
gency may inadvertently hit civilian tar
gets and turn more of the population
against the coalition.
"It will bring chaos," said Hazim al
Jumaily, a member of the security
committee for the Fallujah Tribal
Council. "Chaos."
Some senior coalition officials are ex
pressing reservations over the new strat
egy, agreeing that it could cause the in
surgency to spiral out of control.
"The message is we're coming," said
one senior official, who asked not to be
named. "In the next few weeks, we're
going to test the waters."
(cj 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. Wilkinson
reported from Fallujah.
Democrats denounce outlines
of prescription drug benefit
As Bush pushes for a drug
benefit plan, Democrats
debate ‘premium support’
By Jill Zuckman
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
WASHINGTON — President Bush
pressured Congress on Thursday to
"finish the job" on a prescription drug
benefit for seniors as Republicans ne
gotiated among themselves and De
mocrats denounced the rough out
lines of their plan.
'The choice is simple: Either we will
have more debate, more delay and
more deadlock, or we'll make real
progress," Bush told seniors at the En
gelwood Neighborhood Center in Or
lando. "1 made my choice — I want real
progress. And 1 urge the Congress to
take the path of progress and give our
seniors a modem Medicare system."
House and Senate Republican lead
ers had proposed combining the pre
scription drug benefit with a plan to al
low private insurance companies and
1 IMOs to compete directly with the tra
ditional Medicare program. The
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competition would take place in
one of the country's 11 regions and
in four major metropolitan areas.
But the competition issue, known
as "premium support," is one of the
biggest roadblocks to a deal that can
pass both the House and Senate. Con
servative Republicans say it is the key
to saving money and preserving
Medicare for the long run and want it
instituted nationwide. Democrats,
however, oppose introducing private
insurers into the equation, saying it
will undermine a program that has
worked well for 40 years.
Republicans closeted themselves in
meetings to argue over the proposed
bill's language By day's end, Senate Ma
jority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee de
manded that the two chairmen, Sen.
Charles Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Bill
Thomas of California, present him with
a final proposal Friday.
Meanwhile, Democrats mounted a
campaign to derail the GOP effort to
use private insurance companies for
seniors' health care.
'This program is untested. It's untried.
It's unworkable It's playing roulette with
the lives of our senior citizens," said Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
"We're deeply concerned that 10 mil
lion people will be forced into an HMO
for the first time," said Senate Democra
tic Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. "And all
senior citizens, the other three-fourths
of senior citizens, are going to be forced
to pay much higher premiums."
Democrats circulated a letter to Frist
protesting the GOP plan to incorporate
private health plans into the Medicare
system and urging him to remove it
from the legislation. By late Thursday,
four GOP senators had signed on:
Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of
Maine, John McCain of Arizona and
Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
Daschle and Kennedy also brought
in several consumer and seniors' organ
izations to denounce the Republican
proposal. Missing from the line-up was
the AARP, the nation's most prominent
seniors' group, which is expected to
support the GOP plan.
(c) 2003, Chicago tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.
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