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Child killed, six Iraqis wounded in Talaafar
 (KUNA) -- A child was killed and another six civilians were wounded Saturday in mortar shell attacks targeting a residential compound in Talaafar in west Mosul, north Iraq.Meanwhile an Iraqi police source told KUNA that an exchange of fire was witnessed between armed men driving a civilian vehicle and an Iraqi police patrol in north east Mosul, during which three militants were killed. The source indicated that different kind of ammunition was found in the militants' vehicle. Furthermore, an Iraqi police source in Kirkuk told KUNA that unidentified armed men kidnapped an Iraqi civilian in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The Multi-National Forces said in a statement that large weapons caches were discovered in the cities of Hawija and Al-Riyadh, in addition to three booby-trapped vehicles. As for the US army, it said in a statement that American soldiers with the participation of Iraqi army soldiers arrested 28 militants and confiscated weapons and explosives during Operation Gaugamela being conducted from western Kirkuk to northern Baghdad. According to the statement, the ongoing operation comes according to a request by "local Sunni Arab leaders." It "follows a series of terror attacks in the area, and comes as there are reports indicating the presence of al-Qaeda terror cells in the area." In other developments, the US army said in another statement that five militants were killed and 13 others were wounded, whereas another 47 were arrested during an armed confrontation in southern Baghdad. The statement revealed that three Iraqi policemen and another three army soldiers were killed during the firefight. Meanwhile, a statement by Multi-National Forces said that a US Marine was killed yesterday during a hostile act in the western Iraqi city of Anbar. Posted by: Fred 2006-07-23 |
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