IRAQ MORTAR ATTACK INJURES 11 US TROOPS

[MaryH]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top11jun30,1,526948.story

Baghdad, Iraq - Insurgents fired at least 10 mortar rounds at a US base on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday, wounding 11 soldiers, two of them seriously, and starting a fire that burned for well over an hour.

That attack, along with a car bomb that exploded outside a police headquarters in Samawah, 150 miles south of the capital, Baghdad, were yet more evidence that insurgents have no plans of letting up their attacks even after the US coalition authorities handed over sovereignty to an interim Iraq government on Monday.