Iraq Watch: September 8, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition and Iraqi forces reported having arrested 200 suspected insurgents over the past week in the largely Turkmen city of Tal Afar, 260 miles north of Baghdad. Approximately 150 of the suspects were said to be Arab foreigners from Syria, Yemen, Jordan, and Sudan.
At least 15 unidentified bodies were discovered today south of Baghdad near Mahmoudiya. According to Iraqi police all the victims were wearing civilian clothes and had been shot to death.
Two more bodies were found near a sewage treatmentplant on the outskirts of Baghdad on Thursday.
In former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, two Iraqi soldiers were killed and at least nine others wounded by a roadside bomb in the western al-Jazeera district of the city. Also in Tikrit, a lawyer who was kidnapped by assassilants wearing military uniforms late Wednesday was found dead.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the death of a U.S. soldier who was killed yesterday in an industrial accident at Camp Taqaddum.
At least 15 unidentified bodies were discovered today south of Baghdad near Mahmoudiya. According to Iraqi police all the victims were wearing civilian clothes and had been shot to death.
Two more bodies were found near a sewage treatmentplant on the outskirts of Baghdad on Thursday.
In former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, two Iraqi soldiers were killed and at least nine others wounded by a roadside bomb in the western al-Jazeera district of the city. Also in Tikrit, a lawyer who was kidnapped by assassilants wearing military uniforms late Wednesday was found dead.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the death of a U.S. soldier who was killed yesterday in an industrial accident at Camp Taqaddum.
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