Staged Attacks in Iraq- NY Times

Insurgents Stage Attacks Across Iraq
By EDWARD WONG

Published: July 1, 2004

AGHDAD, Iraq, July 1 - On a day when Saddam Hussein
gave a rambling, defiant speech in an arraignment
before an Iraqi judge, insurgents staged deadly
attacks across the country today, pressing their
tenacious efforts to drive out American troops and
their allies. 

The strikes showed that the insurgency was still
robust despite American hopes that the transfer of
formal sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on
Monday would quiet the rebels. 

An American military official said that although
guerrillas had not mounted the kind of spectacular car
bomb attacks that marked the bloodiest days of the
insurgency, the average number of daily attacks,
including roadside bombings and assassinations, was
still the same as before the handover of limited
powers on Monday. 

In the northern town of Mosul, patrolled by the
Stryker Brigade of the United States Army, a roadside
bomb ripped into a military convoy on the southern
outskirts of the city, killing an American soldier and
wounding two others, the military said. Officials also