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   "The Guardian"  a écrit dans le   
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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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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.   
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