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Car Bombings, Gunbattle in Baghdad, Mosul Kill 8 Iraqis
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=15EA095:A6F02AD83191E16036A2AC40EF3130A79574F7DCC14957C0 US military says 16
terrorists killed, 10 suspects detained in separate operations in
Baghdad, Haditha





Woman reacts at scene of car bomb blast in predominantly Shi'ite
commercial district of Karradah, 23 Jan. 2007

Iraqi security officials say at least three people were killed and
nine others wounded in two car bombings in Baghdad, Tuesday.

Separately, five Iraqi policemen were killed and three others wounded
in gunbattles between Iraqi security forces and insurgents in the
northern city of Mosul.

The U.S. military says coalition forces killed 16 terrorists and
detained 10 suspects in separate operations in the Baghdad and Haditha
areas.

The United Nations refugee agency says armed men dressed in Iraqi
police uniform abducted 17 Palestinians from their Baghdad apartment.

A spokesman for the refugee agency, Ron Redmond, says there are about
15,000 Palestinian refugees in Iraq and that they have increasingly
become the target of attacks.

In another development, an official at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad
has denied Arabic media reports that U.S. and Iraqi forces raided the
Iranian mission Tuesday.

The U.S. military announced the deaths of one Marine and one American
soldier who were killed in separate combat operations in Baghdad and
the western al-Anbar province.

Earlier, a military statement said more than 600 militiamen loyal to
radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were captured during recent
raids by Iraqi and U.S. forces.

The military said the men - including several "high-level" militiaman
from the Mahdi Army - are currently awaiting prosecution by the Iraqi
government.



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


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