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   BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. occupation authority retreated from its headquarters   
   Sunday after Iraqi insurgents, using a "science project" of a rocket launcher,   
   attacked the heavily guarded hotel with a missile barrage that killed an   
   American   
   colonel, wounded 18 other people and sent the visiting deputy defense secretary   
   scurrying for safety.   
      
      
      
   Paul Wolfowitz, the shaken-looking but unhurt Pentagon deputy, said the strike   
   against the Al Rasheed Hotel, from nearly point-blank range, "will not deter   
   us from completing our mission" in Iraq.   
      
      
      
   The effect of the 6:10 a.m. volley of rockets was dramatic: U.S. officials   
   and officers fled from the Al Rasheed, some still in pajamas or shorts to a   
   nearby convention center. The concrete western face of the 18-story building   
   was pockmarked with a half-dozen or more blast holes, and windows shattered   
   in at least two dozen rooms.   
      
      
      
      
      
   A day earlier, a rocket-propelled grenade forced down a U.S. Army Black Hawk   
   helicopter north of Baghdad, the 4th Infantry Division confirmed Sunday. The   
   incident occurred just hours after Wolfowitz left that area on the second day   
   of his three-day visit.   
      
      
      
      
      
   The Guardian   
      
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