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Bin Laden may have little impact on Iraq battlefield
Bin Laden may have little impact on Iraq battlefield
Nine Iraqis were killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Insurgents killed three Iraqis in Karbala and a policeman in Baghdad. Security forces detained the chief adviser to the Salahadin provincial council.
Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad and a police chief in Ninewa. An Iraqi general denied reports in the Iranian press that Iraq was hosting Israeli warplanes to attack Iran.
Insurgents killed five civilians in Baghdad, Al Kut, and Mosul, and a policeman in Baqubah. Security forces released the member of the Anbar provincial council who was detained in Fallujah.
Insurgents killed a Kurdish colonel in Kirkuk and a US soldier during combat operations on April 29 in southern Iraq. Iraqi troops arrested a member of the Anbar provincial council in Fallujah.
A suicide bomber killed five soldiers and three civilians in an attack at a checkpoint in Mosul. Insurgents killed five Iraqis and kidnapped a judge in separate attacks in Baghdad province.
A suicide bomber killed six people in an attack at a mosque in Diyala. Insurgents killed five civilians and an army brigadier in attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Security forces killed one terrorist and detained 14 more in Anbar and Diyala.
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Insurgents killed two Iraqis in Kirkuk and the Baghdad governor’s secretary in the capital. Security forces detained two al Qaeda operatives in Wasit, three members of an IED cell in Baghdad, and seven wanted men in Kirkuk.
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Security forces detained seven al Qaeda in Iraq fighters during raids in Kirkuk. Two soldiers and two local Kurdish security forces were reported to have been killed during a clash in Kirkuk. More than 14,000 Iraqis have gone missing since the Iraq war began in March 2003.
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Insurgents killed two US soldiers “while conducting operations in southern Iraq,” and a police captain and a soldier in Kirkuk. Four people were wounded in a bombing near a Christian church in Baghdad.
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Admiral Mullen said Iraq must decide in the next several weeks if it wants to extend the US military mission in Iraq. Insurgents killed two Iraqi civilians, a police colonel, and an intelligence officer in separate attacks in Baghdad.
Iraq has not requested an extension for US troops to remain in country. Security forces captured al Qaeda’s emir for Fallujah.
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Insurgents killed a child in Samarra and a student in Mosul. Security forces detained 33 wanted men, including two Pakistanis and an Egyptian, in Basrah, and six insurgents in Kirkuk.
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Al Qaeda fighters killed 13 tribesmen associated with the Awakening in a village near Baghdad. Al Qaeda suicide bombers detonated two car bombs outside the Green Zone, killing nine Iraqis.
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Insurgents killed five people, including a policeman, in separate shootings in Baghdad. An employee for the National Security Agency was killed in a bombing in Baghdad. Insurgents also killed a policeman in Mosul and a contractor in Kirkuk.
Insurgents killed an Iraqi National Policeman in an attack in Baghdad and a policeman in Kirkuk. Security forces captured four terrorists in Baghdad and two more in Kirkuk.
A sniper killed two Iraqi soldiers in Khalis near Baqubah. Security forces captured an emir of Ansar al Sunnah in Diyala during a raid in Ninewa.
The UN said that 34 members of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq were killed by Iraqi troops during rioting at Camp Arshaf. A former Baathist is accused of “recruiting Arab terrorists in Syria and Jordan ” to carry out attacks in Iraq.
One person was killed and 16 more were wounded in a car bombing in Kirkuk. Security forces detained three wanted men in Kirkuk. A member of parliament said that turning over members of the People’s Mujahideen of Iran to Iran would be unconstitutional.
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