But according to our rear detachment commander, no soldiers were injured.
More than a dozen rockets fired from donkey carts slammed into Iraq's Oil Ministry and two downtown hotels Friday morning — brazen, coordinated strikes at some of Baghdad's most heavily protected civilian sites that defied a U.S. crackdown.
Two more rocket launchers mounted on donkey carts were found within hours, one of them 30 yards from the Italian Embassy, the other near the Academy of Fine Arts, both in the Waziriya neighborhood north of downtown. Neither appeared to have been fired.
And because noone was hurt, allow me this bit of levity.
Does this give a whole new meaning to the phrase "Blow it out your a*s"?
And then there is this:
Ziyad, a 25-year-old Iraqi man who was staying with his bride Rownaq at the Palestine for their wedding night, was two doors down from one of the areas hit on the 15th floor.
"We were sleeping when we heard the sound of a rocket," he said. "This is our wedding present."
Note to Ziyad: Dude, I hope you weren't intending on a career as a honeymoon travel consultant...
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