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Iraq 'a bloody swamp'
27/10/2003 17:15 - (SA)
Cairo - Arab newspapers said on Monday that "daring" anti-US attacks in Iraq were leaving the US-led coalition forces "drowning in a bloody swamp."
"Occupation forces are sinking in the quicksands of Iraq and drowning in a bloody swamp," said Jordan's Al-Arab Al-Yom daily, commenting on a salvo of rockets Sunday that hit a Baghdad hotel where US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying. One US soldier was killed and 17 other people wounded.
The attacks, blamed on loyalists of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and anti-US Islamic fundamentalists, "are turning into a wearing war of attrition for the US administration," it said.
Another Jordanian newspaper, Al-Dustur, asked whether US Secretary of State Colin Powell and "the others realise that this is only the beginning."
The Egyptian state-run newspapers Al-Gumhuriya and Al-Ahram both said Sunday's attack was "a daring" attempt to assassinate Wolfowitz. Al-Gumhuriya said the US official "escaped death by miracle."
In Lebanon, the As-Safir newspaper played up Wolfowitz's role in promoting the war that toppled Saddam in April. It ran a title saying "the rockets of the resistance track down the architect of the war."
A wave of simultaneous bombings struck Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 200 in the boldest challenge yet to US-led efforts to bring security to post-war Iraq.
- AFP
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