Insurgents Hit Police Station in Baghdad [View All]

Nov 20, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked a police station Saturday in a Sunni Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad where U.S. and Iraqi troops raided a major mosque the day before in a crackdown on Sunni militants. Iraqi officials were trying to identify four decapitated bodies found in Mosul.

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In western Baghdad, heavy fighting broke out between gunmen and Iraqi National Guards and American troops. Three Iraqi National Guardsmen were killed by roadside bombs in the same area, police said.

In the nearby Khadra area, two U.S. troops on patrol were injured when a roadside bomb exploded near their convoy, said policeman Ali Hussein of the Khadra police station. The U.S. military had no immediate confirmation of the incident.

Insurgents also attacked a police station in northwestern Baghdad with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, witnesses said. On Friday, Iraqi and U.S. forces raided the nearby Abu Hanifa mosque ? one of the country's most important Sunni mosques ? in an operation that appeared to be part of a crackdown on militant clerics opposed to the U.S.-led attack on Fallujah.

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Seems that Fallujia offensive really was successful.