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| Iraq |
| 14 insurgents, seven Iraqis killed |
| 2006-12-08 |
| US forces blasted buildings in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi with tank fire, killing 14 insurgents, said the US military on Thursday, while at least seven Iraqis were killed in attacks. A US soldier was killed and three others were wounded in the clashes that erupted on Wednesday after American and Iraqi troops were attacked with machinegun fire from numerous insurgent positions, “including a mosque”. “Coalition Forces used tank main gun rounds and precision-guided ordnance to destroy buildings from which insurgents were attacking in Ramadi,” said a statement. It said the buildings were destroyed but the mosque was not hit. No civilian casualties were reported, it added. In the restive western city of Fallujah, a car bomb explosion targeted a police patrol and killed three officers, said a police source. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated Lieutenant Colonel Basim Luaibi, the assistant director of Sadun police station, and two of his bodyguards in an ambush at the Al-Shaab intersection, said a security official. In Diwaniyah, gunmen murdered Alwan Qasim, a former member of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s defunct Baath Party, said police. In Iskandriyah, police found bodies of two unidentifed civilians who had been shot in the head and chest. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 “including a mosque”. What a shocker?????Cowards!!! |
| Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2006-12-08 13:08 |