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US vows overwhelming revenge
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-04-02 08:58


Iraq's US administrator Paul Bremer (L) walks with his bodyguard to attend a meeting, April 1, 2004, in the northern city of Mosul. Bremer vowed to use overwhelming force to enter the volatile Iraqi town of Falluja, west of Baghdad, and hunt down those who killed and mutilated four American contractors. [AP]

Iraqi police officers restrain a demonstrator in the southern Iraqi town of Basra April 1, 2004. Iraqi security forces fired at protesters demanding jobs as policemen, killing one demonstrator and wounding two others, officials said. [AP]


A US soldier from Fort Louis, Washington-based Stryker Brigade, keeps watch during a marketplace patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul April 1, 2004. [Reuters]


US civil administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer addresses new members of the Iraqi Police Service during a graduation ceremony April 1, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq, one day after the grisly killings and mutilation of four American contractors deepened fears that security was worsening. Bremer vowed to hunt down those responsible for ambushing the contractors in the restive city of Falluja, and those who then torched the corpses and dragged them through the streets before hanging them from a bridge.[Reuters]

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