Four U.S. Soldiers Hurt in Iraq
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Jane Arraf following all of the day's events from Baghdad. She joins us with the latest.</s>JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Martin, it's one of those days when it just doesn't seem like the U.S.-led coalition is actually winning the peace. Now as you mentioned, that attack in Fallujah, not clear whether it was an attack or whether it was some other reason that there was a major explosion next to on mosque in Fallujah, that troubled town west of Baghdad. Violence hasn't really settled down since April, when American forces opened fire on demonstrators, and last night's incident didn't help. Witnesses there tell us at least six Iraqis are dead, possibly up to 10, no word on U.S. casualties, but U.S. officials say they're investigating the cause of that, which has left residents furious. And in one of the other attacks that you mentioned, three American soldiers wounded, two of them apparently critically according to witnesses after a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at their armored vehicle on a main street near the gates of the university. This was near a gas station. It was a very crowded, busy street this morning. Someone opened fire with that grenade, wounding those people. We're still waiting for word of their condition. But the chief civilian administrator here continues to say things are getting better. And L. Paul Bremer told reporters that he rejected of suggestion that some of this violence is spontaneous.</s>L. PAUL BREMER, U.S. CIVIL ADMINISTRATOR: I have seen little evidence that they're directly attributable to terrorists from outside the country. The great majority of the attacks are from members of the ex-regime, the Baathist, Fedayeen, Saddam's demobilized Republican Guard, members of the SSO, but it is clear that we have terrorists out there.</s>ARRAF: Now, Bremer continues to say that day by day conditions improve in Iraq, but there are a lot of people in Baghdad and Fallujah and other places who just would not agree -- Martin.</s>SAVIDGE: Jane, I'm curious, that mosque explosion, or the explosion near the mosque, has that triggered a lot of anger on the streets of people?</s>ARRAF: Incredible anger, because even if it does result, even if it does prove to not have had anything to do with American forces, the climate is such that people really want to believe that American troops were responsible for this. The phrase you hear over and over again here, is they don't understand us, and we don't understand them, and at least the fatal misunderstandings, and in a lot of places, it really leads to a climate where, in trying to track down the people who are launching attacks like that or other attacks, there isn't a great willingness on the part of their neighbors to give them up, because there is an underlying hostility, and that is one of the major problems here -- Martin.</s>SAVIDGE: That's troubling. Jane Arraf, live from Baghdad, thanks very much.