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August 17, 2007

Gunmen in Iraqi Mosque Kill One US Soldier, Injure Another
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=18BFD88:A6F02AD83191E1607EC7A8725D06AD549574F7DCC14957C0 Military statement
says coalition forces were fired upon from Honest Muhammad Mosque in
Tarmiyah





The U.S. military says a U.S. soldier in Iraq was killed and another
wounded when they were shot by insurgents who were inside a Sunni
mosque north of Baghdad. 

The military says the soldiers were attacked at their outpost Thursday
with heavy small arms fire that came from the Honest Muhammad Mosque
in Tarmiyah.

The military says a helicopter fired a missile at two gunmen on the
roof, causing minor damage.  The release did not say what happened to
the two gunmen.

In other news, the military says coalition forces killed 13 terrorists
and detained a dozen suspects during battles with militants holed up
in several buildings east of Tarmiyah Friday.

The military says a boy was killed inside a building with an armed
terrorist.  The military says it previously called out for the
fighters to send out any civilians who were in the buildings.

Separately, troops detained 14 suspected terrorists in central and
northern Iraq since Thursday.  







Prime Minister al-Maliki (L) talks with President Jalal Talabani (R)
in Baghdad, 16 Aug 2007

In other developments, Iraqi Shi'ite and Kurdish lawmakers have formed
a new political alliance to try to shore up Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki's shaky government.  But the alliance does not include Sunni
Arab factions.

In northern Iraq, rescue workers are still digging through rubble from
the devastating suicide bombings that killed at least 400 people.

Four truck bombs leveled several blocks of two Kurdish-speaking
communities near the Syrian border on Tuesday.  The victims were
mainly religious-minority Yazidis, whom Islamic militants consider
infidels.

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


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