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September 26, 2007

Bombings in Northern Iraq Kill 19
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=19A2E8B:A6F02AD83191E160194CFDF14BE7DAA49574F7DCC14957C0 US military
spokesman acknowledges upturn in violence in recent days, but says US,
Iraqi forces trying to keep pressure on extremist networks





Iraqi hospital morgue employees cover 25 unidentified dead bodies as
they prepare to bury them, Baquba, 26 Sep 2007 Iraqi authorities say
bomb attacks killed at least 19 people in northern Iraq Wednesday.

A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people and wounded about 10
others in an attack against a tribal leader near the town of Sinjar.
The tribal leader, Sheikh Kanan al-Juharimur, was wounded.

Two car bombs targeting police killed seven people in the town of
Shurqat, while bombings in the city of Mosul killed four people.

A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Major General Kevin Bergner,
acknowledged that there has been an upturn in violence in recent days,
but he said U.S. and Iraqi forces are trying to keep the pressure on
extremist networks.

The U.S. military also said an American soldier was killed by
small-arms fire while on combat duty Tuesday in Baghdad.

In other developments, the U.S. military said coalition forces killed
three suspected al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists and detained eight others
during operations in central and northern Iraq Wednesday .

The military also said a wanted terrorist suspect was captured and
three others detained during separate operations in Baghdad.Some
information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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