From correspondents in Samarra, Iraq
A SUICIDE bomber in a wheelchair killed a top policeman and wounded two others when he blew himself up in the police operations centre in the Iraqi city of Samarra today, police said.
The bomber had entered the building in Samarra, 100km north of Baghdad, and asked to speak to assistant police [...]

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Baghdad - A local tribal force in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra said Monday it killed a gunman wearing an explosive belt and arrested two suspected al-Qaeda insurgents in a raid on their hideout where a large weapons cache was seized.
‘The local police and a tribal force launched Sunday night a search operation in [...]

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Once prosperous city has fallen victim to insurgents
SAMARRA, Iraq - There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions, and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, “Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in [...]

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Forty senior al Qaeda in Iraq members were either captured or killed in November, including a senior adviser to the Sunni Islamist group’s leader, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
Violence levels in Iraq have fallen to their lowest levels since January 2006 after a security crackdown, which included a deployment of an extra 30,000 U.S. [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 (UPI) — A spate of bombings and U.S.-led coalition counterinsurgency arrests were reported throughout Iraq on Thursday.
A raid targeting an unidentified Shiite extremist north of Baghdad resulted in the deaths of two armed militants and the arrests of five others, a U.S. military statement said.
Raids in Tarmiya, north of Samarra, Hawija, and [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov 11 (KUNA) — The US Army in Iraq announced on Sunday it has killed nine terrorists and detained four others in an operation west of Samarra.
Media Coordinator of the Multi-National Force in Iraq Janah Hmoud told KUNA that the US army and Iraqi police conducted a combined operation with Coalition Forces (CF) against [...]

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2007 - Coalition forces wounded one suspected terrorist and detained 19 others today during operations to disrupt foreign terrorist networks in central Iraq.– Southeast of Fallujah, coalition forces targeted an associate of an al Qaeda network responsible for insurgent activities in the region, including car-bomb and improvised-explosive-device attacks. As coalition forces arrived [...]

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TIKRIT, Iraq - The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq said he believes that al-Qaida has been disrupted severely enough that coalition forces can now focus more on helping improve the Iraqi government and economy.Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, who took command of Multi-National Division - North last month, said he believes the war in Iraq [...]

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WASHINGTON - Coalition troops killed 12 terrorists and detained 26 suspects during a series of operations across Iraq today.– West of Kirkuk, coalition forces killed one terrorist and captured another, a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq leader who is linked to funding local terrorist operations.
– In Beiji, coalition forces captured an individual linked to providing [...]

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BAGHDAD, Sept 20 (KUNA) — Two members of Al-Qaeda were arrested yesterday by US and Iraqi forces during search operations in northern Iraq, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said Thursday.
In a statement, the MNF said US and Iraqi forces waged a search operation in the mountainous area of Hamrain, southeast Kirkuk, which is close to the [...]

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