Iraq kills 14 'terrorists' after deadly gunbattle
AFP, September, 2006
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and seized 22 suspects, the government said, in a spectacular follow-up to the capture of an alleged top-level Al-Qaeda leader. Meanwhile, however, insurgents killed one US and two British soldiers in separate bomb attacks and the bullet-riddled bodies of 33 murder victims were collected from the streets of the war-torn capital Baghdad.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office announced that a large force of Iraqi troops and police had descended on a suspected insurgent stronghold in the Euphrates valley south of Baghdad. The operation took place in a region inhabited by members of the country's restive Sunni minority and is a hotbed for rebel attacks. The raid was designed to thwart attacks on Shiite pilgrims, the government said. "The 8th division cordoned off an area in Abid Wayis village in Jurf al-Sakhr after intelligence reports that terrorist elements were planning to attack ...
