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| Iraq |
| Gunman killed, 14 arrested in Baghdad |
| 2008-11-19 |
 Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi security forces killed one gunman, arrested 14 others, and defused 232 bombs in separate areas of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, the official spokesman for the Baghdad operations command said."Iraqi forces found also amounts of weapons and ammunitions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad," General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq. "A total of 15 displaced families have returned to their houses," he added. "Four Iraqi security elements were wounded during the operations," Atta noted. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Not only abandoned ones, ed. HBIEDs (house borne IEDs) have been planted in homes where the family was forced out. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-11-19 13:15 |
| #3 They have been booby trapping a lot of abandoned houses lately. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-19 08:38 |
| #2 That's... an awful lot of bombs. What, did somebody booby-trap an arms cache? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-11-19 08:35 |
| #1 Very well done -- a credit to their teachers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-11-19 07:23 |