Soldiers with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team Fort Lewis), scan for anti-Iraqi forces during a combined operation with the Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 13, 2004. DoD photoFrom The Times Online:
The hunt began just after dawn. Iraqi armoured personnel carriers surrounded the turbulent Zanjali district in the northern city of Mosul, blocking off roads as police acting on an urgent tip-off swept in and searched from house to house.
They were looking for an Al-Qaeda bomb – a big one. Their intelligence suggested it could be detonated as early as today.
As the search intensified, I accompanied Colonel Tawfeeq Abdullah on a tense drive through Mosul to check on the operation’s progress.
A gunner loomed out of the open hatch in the roof of our Iraqi army Humvee, swivelling a heavy machinegun and scouring the bullet-pocked streets for enemy.
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More News On Iraq From Other Sources:
Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda -- Times Online
FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 5 -- Reuters
Iraqi PM Says Baghdad Saved From Terrorist 'Siege' -- Voice Of America
Iraqi PM says government has defeated terrorism -- International Herald Tribune
My Comment: The next 6 months will decide where Iraq will be going for the next few years.
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