WP: Attack Kills 4 Baghdad University Students (dorm hit)

[DeepModem Mom]

Attack Kills 4 Baghdad University Students
By Naseer Nouri and Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 16, 2005; 9:27 AM


BAGHDAD, May 16 -- A rocket struck a residential building at Baghdad's Mustan-Sirya University Monday morning, killing four engineering students and wounding ten.

The attack occurred around 11:15 a.m., while students prepared for next week's final examinations in a leafy outdoor courtyard.

Two male students and one female died instantly in the blast, which reduced the top corner of a dormitory to rubble, according to a professor who lives in the compound.

Another male student died at nearby Medical City Hospital, according to a student who had just returned from there.

"What do they want. Why are they after the students," said student Haythm Saleem, 20. "They are going to destroy the country."...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/16/AR2005051600402.html

[Sabriel]

1. Yes, why are "they"?

And who's the "they" exactly who's behind this rocket?

[Roland99]

2. A rocket attack implies something more organized...former Saddam Fedayeen

or Ba'athists.


Some of the Sunnis are moving toward a more fundamentalist rule of Iraq. They esp. don't want women involved in society as they have been in the past.

[bemildred]

3. Well, clearly, it's the Iraqi terrorists that oppose our efforts to help

the Iraqi people by bringing "security" and "democracy" to Iraq.
Whom else could it be behind this?
</sarcasm>

[dArKeR]

4. I don't think the rebels would waste a rocket on a dormitory

If the below rebels used a rocket here they would have got the general and lost no one. So you decide for yourselves if the report is true.


An Iraqi army brigadier general survived an assassination attempt early today when eight gunmen attacked his convoy at an junction in Saydiya, southern Baghdad.

Soldiers returned fire against the gunmen, who had got out of two cars before attacking the convoy. Four gunmen were killed and the remainder fled on foot.

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