March 08, 2005:
From the AFP via The Australian :
In the restive northern city of Mosul, two suspected insurgents were killed and two wounded during a raid by US troops in search of weapons yesterday, a military statement said, adding that two "extremely large" caches were seized.
The arms caches included 200,000 rounds of ammunition, over 950 mortar rounds and over 1850 pounds of explosives, it said.
US soldiers repelled an attack in Dujail, east of Baquba, yesterday killing two insurgents and detaining five, said a statement.
In Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province, new Iraqi commandos conducted a raid on a hospital today "to investigate possible insurgent activity taking place on the premises," said a US military statement.
A car bomb was detonated near a US-Iraqi security checkpoint yesterday in eastern Ramadi, said another statement without giving further details or saying if there were any casualties.
An arms cache found in Mosul. Al-Qaeda militants gunned down a senior Iraqi offical and soldiers discovered 15 beheaded bodies as the furore over the US shooting of an Italian intelligence agent threatened to carve a deep rift between Washington and Rome.(AFP/US Army-HO)
Iraqi police look through a cache of 600 munitions discovered in the Bahar district, about 500 metres from the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali, in the city of Najaf, Iraq on Tuesday, March 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)