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Bombs, shootings kill 21 Iraqis; 3 US soldiers dead | |
2007-11-02 | |
Bombs and drive-by shootings killed at least 21 people on Thursday across Baghdad and its northern belts, and the US military announced the deaths of three more soldiers killed in combat in the countryÂ’s north.
EFPs fire a slug of molten copper capable of penetrating armored vehicles and so are more deadly than other roadside bombs. They are used largely by Shia militias, and Washington blames Iran for their manufacture and distribution in Iraq. Iran denies the assertion. Iraqi and American forces captured some 118 suspected insurgents in two days of raids in central and northern Iraq. US troops killed 14 suspects during the operations, the military said. Iraqi forces killed 13 suspects, police said, after storming a suspected Al-Qaida hide-out Thursday near Khalis, a town in Diyala province where the terror organisation has a heavy presence. On Thursday, the US military announced the deaths of three US soldiers killed a day earlier. Two died in an explosion near their vehicle in IraqÂ’s northern Ninevah province, the third was killed by a roadside bomb in Salahuddin province, also north of Baghdad. | |
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