Rumsfeld says US is winning the war as bomb attacks kill 18
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Bombs in Baghdad killed 18 people as the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, declared that America was winning the war against insurgency during a visit to Iraq.
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An explosion killed up to 17 people in  Baghdad Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January  elections.
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FALLUJAH (Iraq) - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit to Iraq yesterday and told US troops the war could still be won.
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The risk in Iraq is not of civil war but that the country will end up under the control of extremists who &quot;run around chopping off people&#39;s heads,&quot; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in remarks broadcast on Saturday.
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Iraqi police and a community leader said a bomb blast near a soccer field in the city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed 18 people, mostly children, but the U.S. military said it was unaware of such an attack.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad on Sunday hours  before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge  efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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BAGHDAD - US forces in Iraq say they hope to be in control of all of the Fallujah by Saturday, in spite of fierce fighting in which as many as 600 insurgents, 18 US troops and five Iraqi soldiers have been killed.
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Bombs killed 20 people in Iraq on Saturday, including 15 in Baghdad, police said, as U.S. President George W. Bush said his resolve to press on with the job of stabilizing Iraq was as strong as ever.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts  to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld delivered an impassioned defense of himself yesterday, saying at a Pentagon news conference that US casualties in Iraq affect him profoundly.
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Embattled US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says American casualties in Iraq affect him deeply.
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Description: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld pays a surprise visit to troops in Iraq, landing first at the US base near Mosul where an insurgent attack three days ago killed 22 people.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday he is confident the interim Iraqi government will find a way to retake cities now in the hands of insurgents.
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Losses of life and other painful sacrifices made in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will prove to be worthwhile for peace, stability and freedom in regions where tyranny once reigned, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday in Phoenix.
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The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, wouldn&#39;t call it the final showdown with the Iraqi insurgents. They&#39;re determined, he said, and it&#39;s going to take time to defeat them.
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At least 18 people were killed in a suicide bombing on Saturday, capping a week of horrific violence in Iraq as al-Qaeda-linked militants threatened to kill two American and a British hostage in 48 hours.