BAGHDAD, Oct 26 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

BAGHDAD, Oct 26 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH CONFIRMATION OF 1 KILLED IN ATTACK)

Suspected anti-U.S. guerrillas fired rocket at a epicurism hotel in central Baghdad where U envoy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying early Sunday, killing single U.S. soldier and injuring 15 population the U.S. military said.

Up to eight rocket slammed into the north side of the Al Rasheed [i]cabaret[/i] around 6:10 a.m., a coalition official said.

The anguished includes seven U.S. civilians, four American soldiers and four population identified as non-coalition personnel, according to a coalition spokesman.

Following the attack, Wolfowitz, who escaped unharmed from the tavern told reporters that the U would be ''unrelenting'' in its mission in Iraq.

''The criminals who are trying to destabilize this native land abused and tortured Iraq for 35 years and we have expirationed that mass oppression,'' Wolfowitz said. ''There are a not many who refuse to accept the reality of a recent and free Iraq. We will be unrelenting in our pursuit of them.''

greatest in number of the damage was limited to the same side of the hotel between floors three and 11 -- Wolfowitz was staying in succession the 12th floor, the report said.

Wolfowitz, onward a three-day Iraq tour that expirations Sunday, said he was not changing his scheduled occurrences following the attack.

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