Show A10 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday November 13 2003 D Iraq occupation Truck bomb sOaunns Oftalfiaim toase Bush advisers weigh new governing options Unjted States strikes back after suicide bomber kills 26 NASIRIYAH Iraq iAPi - - A suicide bomber hie up a truck packed with explosives at an Italian paramilitary killing at least 26 I The htiled States’ people struck at tlu Iraqi insurgency hours later destrox mg a ware- house in Baghdad' and chasing attackers who were seen firing mortars V iWNaViriy ah'Ult:kk w as the deadliest against aii American ' ally since the Victrupation began and appeared tosenda message1 that international gnmpsare not sale anywhere in Iraq It came phthc saine day the chief U S — administrator for Iraqwenf to jhe White House to put forth proposals on transferring more authority to the Iraqis Col Gian fninci) Scalas said IS Italians were killed: 2 Carabinieri paramilitary police lour soldiers a civilian working at the base and a documentary filmmaker A spokesman for the US-le- d coalition said at least eight Iraqis also died- - 'Hie bomber — whosenatiiinality ' was'iiot known -- - also died ' 'Hie blasi wouiided 79 poo- pie 20 of them Italians hospital sources and llaliaiVolTicials ) i - ' said’ - s Itahans w ere siunhed by their nation's single w orst military’ Idss since World War II aiid its first in ihe lriq campaign' At Rome’slomb of ihc unknown ' Mildierthegreen-whiie-and-re- d flag rippled at hall staff and piirliainenl held a niinute of : ' silence Italian Premier Silvio Berlus: coni pledged that Italy’s mis-- - " 'sioh in Iraq would not her ' derailed ( ipposition leaders' whooppdsed the deployment to -- ' ' ’’ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush and senior national security advisers grajv pled with plans Wednesday to accelerate the transfer of power in Baghdad under the pressure of rising casualties and a trou- -' bling intelligence report from ' ' Iraq "We are in a very intense' period here" said L Paul BrC- mer the top US administrator in Iraq The Bush adniinistra- -' tion is wonied about a lack of ' ' progress by the American- -' appointed Iraqi Governing Council toward meeting a Dec 15 UN deadline for producing a new Constitution and holding ' elections ' - The adriiinistration does not intend to abandon the council officials said but is exploring ' new scenarios One option calls for creating a smaller body within the council — perhaps 10 people with expanded roles or establishing one person as a strong leader of the council' a senior administration official said Secretary of State Colin Powell-sai“We’re looking at all sorts of ideas and we do want to accelerate the pace of reform” Bremer said he would go back to (he council and say that “ye need to pull (his all together and integrate it into a plan going forward” ' v The administration refused vU) discuss publicly what was Under consideration saying the Iraqi ciiuncit had to be consult- - ' " ' APphoto An Italian Army soldier foreground and Italian Carabinieri secure the place next to the barracks building wrhich was destroyed by a car bomb in the Italian camp in Nasiriyah on' Wednesday At least 16 Italian soldiers and eight Iraqi civilians died in the suicide car bomb attack then exploded he added It was the 13th vehicle homh- ' i ing in Imq since Aug 7 when it ' ' Jaliil Talabani the head of the ear exploded at the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad killing at Iraqi Governing Council called Italians least 19 people Wednesday’s slain of (lie martyrs blast from the estimated 650 the fight for the freedom of pounds of explosives collapsed Iraq" all three stories of the building' There were Conflicting crater in accounts of the attack which gouged a front of it and set fircloparked tixik place about 10:40 ani at a three-storcars' Secondary explosions' building used by the ' from stored ammunition shrxik Carabinieri's multinational spe- '' ' the area eialisf unit in Nasiriyah 180 The scorched tw isted " miles southeast of Baghdad Sad day: Italian Premier Silvio ' remains of military jeeps lit- -' AVhnesses said the decoy car Berlusconi reacts while addressitered the parking lot and hull- - ' ran a Wuidblock in front oj'a the Senate in Rome followng bardozers Italian where ' the cleared nibble Chunks square " ing a suicide attack on Italian ' 'of concrete und wiring hung racks was located Guards troops in Iraq On Wednesday ’opened firehutas the' vehicle'- irpm partly destroyed walls' ' "This is terrorism pure arid ' sped away tlie fuel tanker ' the compound at approached the simple’’ Scalds said opposite approaclied fnim ' inside Gunmen linespeed! high direction and rammed into the Portugal said it was changing !of the vehicles opened fire at plans to deploy 128 elite polite' ga’teof tlie building before Italian troops guarding the officers to Iraq because of the exploding entrance he said The guards Ultia'k Italian Defense Minister1 J Ahtoiiio Martino said the truck ' returned fire but theyehicle The contingent will go to plowed through the gate and followed by an armored car ' Basra instead of Nasiriyah postwar Iraq called on the government to w ithdraw the contin-ge- n y: : ' - meeting: Lv Paul Bremer the top US administra y tor in Baghdad talks to reporters ’ outside the White House on Wednesday Mowing a meeting with the presidentto defeat terrorism and to give Iraqis authority over their own country “Wc'rc having some serious discussions about the best way to move forward” Powell said Urgent :' - on ed ' ' later j The consultations Uxikon greater urgency when a suicide ' bombing in southern Iraq killed at least two dozen peo-pie including 18 Italians It was the deadliest toll su!Tere(f coalition by y forces since the occupation ' began in April Bush who hasrefrained ' from reacting to American casualties on a daily basis expressed remorse “We appre-- : ciate their sacrifices” he said “I appreciate the steadfast leadership of Prime Minister (Silvio) Berlusconi whorefus- es to yield in the face of ter- y an ' ‘ first- Bremer was hurriedly called ' ' io Washington for talks with ' Bush: Vice President Dick Cheney Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld National V Security Adviser Conddleezza-Ricand Powell He said he ' would return to Baghdad with the message that Bush was y -steadfast in hi$ determination' -- - - ror” Mounting y' US' casualties — 153 soldiers killed since May l when Bush declared an end to major combat — hiive brought s' criticism of die president on r ! 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