(Telegraph-UK) Jubilant Iraqis danced on the twisted wreckage of a U.S. armored car in central Baghdad Thursday after a rocket-propelled grenade attack left three soldiers wounded. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of coalition forces in Iraq, said that the number of shooting incidents was running at 13 a day. After a Chevrolet vehicle approached a convoy of three American Humvee armored cars on Haifa Street in central Baghdad, a man inside fired a rocket-propelled grenade directly into one of the Humvees. The vehicle burst into flames as the car raced away and escaped. Once the shock of the attack had worn off, dozens of Iraqis swarmed on to the wrecked Humvee. Boys danced on the roof, while men tore strips of metal off the charred, smoking wreckage. Shortly afterwards, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired into one of two Humvees traveling together in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, and six solders were injured. Ramadi is a Sunni-dominated town and the scene of numerous attacks on U.S. forces. It was a stronghold of support for Saddam and provided recruits for many of his elite units.
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