[mikegi]

As a fierce gunbattle broke out, three insurgents detonated explosives and killed themselves to avoid capture. Five more died fighting, while four police officers also were killed. Al-Jubouri said officials were attempting to identify the dead insurgents. In Baghdad, the U.S. command confirmed the firefight and said 11 U.S. soldiers, nine Iraqi army troops and one policeman were wounded. The U.S. statement put the insurgent death toll at seven.

This is the Zarqawi-is-dead battle, I believe. Sounds like it was a big firefight.

[BlackVeil]

This is the Zarqawi-is-dead battle, I believe.

Sounds like it - I was just catching up and reading other posts - there are a lot of rumours running.

This article is a mishmash of news items, a sort of digest. They always do that with Iraq.