U.S. Army soldiers inspect the crater created by an explosion that killed one Iraqi child and injuring four Iraqi bystanders and one US soldier in the al-Mansour neighborhood west Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)
Iraq Postwar Challenges Felt Abroad, and at Home Story aired: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Postwar challenges in Iraq are being felt both in that country and on Capitol Hill.
CIA Director George Tenet is expected to testify before a Senate panel today on prewar intelligence. Senator Ted Kennedy is demanding the Bush administration present a postwar plan, to prevent U.S. troops from being, as Kennedy called them, "sitting ducks."
In Iraq, a U.S. solider was killed today in a grenade attack on a convoy outside Baghdad. In the northern town of Hitath, the pro-American mayor and his son were also shot dead: killings considered another warning to those who would support the new Iraq.
In addition, a report by Human Rights Watch says rapes are on the rise in postwar Iraq.
Guests:
Neela Banerjee, correspondent for the New York Times.
