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US Military Detains 60 Terror Suspects at Baghdad Funeral
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=1374F2A:3919ACA Men are believed to
be linked to al-Qaida cell behind car bombings in Baghdad





Iraqi bystanders are seen at the site where at least 35 people were
killed on August 10, 2006 by a suicide bomber in a market in the Iraqi
city of Najaf near Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrine, the Imam Ali
mausoleum

The U.S. military in Iraq says its troops have detained 60 suspected
terrorists at a Baghdad funeral.

A military statement Saturday says the suspects were taken into
custody Friday in a predominantly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad,
Arab Jabour. The military says the men are believed to be linked to an
al-Qaida cell responsible for car bombings in Baghdad.

Some 50,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces are taking part in a new operation,
Operation Together Forward, designed to quell persistent violence in
and around Baghdad.

Elsewhere, Iraqi insurgents killed at least 12 people in attacks
around the country today. Among them was a police captain shot dead as
he was heading to work in Baquba, north of the capital.

Two people were killed in the southern city of Basra when insurgents
left a bomb in a shop that sold videos and cassette tapes.

And the U.S. military announced that two soldiers in the multinational
force were killed Saturday by an improvised explosive device on a road
south of Baghdad.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP  and Reuters.


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