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US air strikes kill six in Baghdad
 BAGHDAD - Clashes involving fighters firing mortar shells and US-Iraqi forces in southwest Baghdad killed six suspected insurgents and wounded one, Iraqs interior ministry and American officials said on Friday. The clashes occurred in the Saydiyah neighbourhood on Thursday, the officials said.There was an engagement yesterday in the Saydiyah area involving an aerial weapons team and an enemy mortar team, a military spokesman, Major Kirk Luedeke, told AFP. Six enemy combatants were positively identified, engaged and killed by the Aerial Weapons Team, he said. An additional wounded combatant was treated for his wounds and taken into custody for further questioning, Luedeke said. Posted by: Steve White 2008-03-22 |
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