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May 11, 2008

US Forces Kill Woman, Child and 2 Gunmen Mosul 
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The military says it regretted the deaths of civilians 
U.S. forces have killed four people, including two civilians, near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

The U.S. military said in a statement Sunday that its forces fired on a vehicle, killing two armed men, a woman and a child.  The military says three warning shots were fired and the driver refused to stop.

The military says it regretted the deaths of civilians.

Iraqi and U.S. troops began a major offensive against the al-Qaida in Iraq group in Mosul on Saturday.  Mosul is considered al-Qaida in Iraq's last significant urban stronghold. 

Also Saturday, an aide to radical Iraqi Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr said the cleric's supporters reached a cease-fire agreement with the government to end fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government supports the cease-fire.  

Dabbagh says the agreement represents the government's aim to impose law and order in Sadr City.  He says the accord also gives security forces the right to search any place suspected as a weapons storehouse. 

Fighting in Sadr City has killed hundreds of people since late March when Mr. Maliki ordered a crackdown on Shi'ite militias.



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





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