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| Iraq |
| Gunman captured in Mosul |
| 2008-07-09 |
| (VOI) -- Police forces arrested a gunman on Tuesday after planting a bomb in southern Mosul, the chief of the Ninewa police department said. "Policemen arrested a gunman after planting a bomb in al-Dendan intersection in southern Mosul," General Khaled al-Hamadani told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "Security authorities received a tip-off from a citizen indicating a person who tossed a black package on the main road in the region," al-Hamadani explained. "Police forces managed to arrest the gunman and bomb squad team rushed to the area where they managed to defuse the bomb without casualties," he also said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Police forces arrested a gunman on Tuesday after planting a bomb in southern Mosul, the chief of the Ninewa police department said. I know English isn't the first language of many of these people in the Muddled East, but some editor somewhere should really, REALLY do his job. According to the way the sentence above reads, the police, not the gunman, planted the bomb. While that's possible, it's not very probable. We also have newspapers such as the "paper of rec |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-09 15:20 |