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Attack kills five policemen in Iraq
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-09 20:29
A suicide bomber detonated his car Wednesday near a
police patrol in Baquoba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing five policemen
and wounding five others, officials said.
In this picture released by the US Marine
Corps, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005, a hospitalman 3rd Class Esnola with 2d
Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, posts security down a street on a civil
affairs patrol during Operation Steel Curtain in Husaybah, Iraq. U.S. and
Iraqi forces have secured the town of Husaybah after four days of fighting
along the Syrian border and the al-Qaida-led insurgents there have been
neutralized, the Marine commander said Tuesday.
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U.S. Air Force jets destroyed a building near the Syrian border Wednesday
where al-Qaida insurgents hid weapons, the U.S. military said.
The attack occurred early in the day in the village of Bu Hardan near the
cities of Qaim and Husaybah where U.S. and Iraqi troops conducted a major
operation in the past four days.
"The terrorists were seen moving mortars and other small weapons into the
targeted building," the statement said. "This weapons cache was directly linked
to mortar attacks on Coalition and Iraqi security forces."
The statement said the raid destroyed the building and
"all contents of the weapons cache."
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