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More than 500 gunmen killed, arrested in Iraq last week
(KUNA) -- Iraqi ministry of Interior said Thursday that it arrested or eliminated 537 gunmen while 41 policemen were killed by insurgents throughout the previous week.The National Police arrested 79 gunmen while the local police arrested 403 others in scattered areas of Iraq, the ministry said in its weekly report. Ten terrorists were killed by national police forces while 45 others were killed by local forces and seven hostages were released, the report added. The report carried on by saying that 156 policemen were injured. The statement revealed the names of top Iraqi members of leading terrorist groups that were arrested in addition to five Egyptians and five Syrians in Dyala province northeastern the capital Baghdad. Police also managed to dismantle three booby-trapped vehicles and seize 6000 pieces of weapons. In a separate story, the Iraqi cabinet formed a special committee headed by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to reconstruct the holy Shiite shrines in the city of Samarra in northern Baquba after being bombarded due to sectarian violence in Iraq, a government statement said. The committee, comprised of high government officials, will supervise the rebuilding process of the shrines alongside developing the city in Salah al-Din province. The shrines bombardment last February came as a result of mounting sectarian violence in the capital Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces. Iraqi police has arrested the people responsible for the attacks, including Tunisian Yousri Fakher Mohammad, who later was executed after a month of indicting him before an Iraqi court. Posted by: Fred 2006-11-17 |
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