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LATIFIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers. The joint U.S.-Iraqi force operating in Latifiyah to the south was backed by American air power and said it had rounded up at least 108 Iraqis, mainly Sunnis, suspected of involvement in the brutal insurgent campaign to topple the Shiite-led government. To...

Marines uncover bunker complex By Antonio Castaneda ASSOCIATED PRESS Published June 5, 2005 LATIFIYAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines said yesterday they had discovered a massive underground bunker complex with 50 caches of weapons and ammunition and living quarters fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers.     In the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi forces said they had arrested a key terrorist leader linked to Syrian intelligence, who was responsible for numerous beheadings and car bomb attacks.     The Marines said the bunker complex, discovered over the past four days in Anbar province west of Baghdad, included a recently used "insurgent...

LATIFIYAH, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers. The joint U.S.-Iraqi force operating in Latifiyah to the south was backed by American air power and said it had rounded up at least 108 Iraqis, mainly Sunnis, suspected of involvement in the brutal insurgent campaign to topple the Shiite-led government. To...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 4 - American marines have discovered an elaborate series of underground bunkers used recently by insurgents in central Iraq, with heavy weapons, a kitchen and fresh food, furnished living quarters, showers and even a working air-conditioner, the military said Saturday. The bunkers were built into an old rock quarry north of the town of Karma, an insurgent stronghold in Anbar Province that lies near the city of Falluja. The bunker system measures 546 feet by 883 feet, making it the largest underground insurgent hide-out to be discovered in at least the past year, if not during the...

LATIFIYAH, Iraq — Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday for insurgents and their hideouts in an area south of Baghdad known for attacks, and the Marines said they discovered 50 weapons and ammunition caches and a huge underground bunker west of the capital fitted out with air conditioning, a kitchen and showers.

LATIFIYAH, Iraq - Hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. troops searched fields and farms Saturday in an area known as the Triangle of Death, hunting throughout a searingly hot late spring day for hideouts used by predominantly Sunni Arab militants to mount suicide attacks against nearby Baghdad. They rounded up at least 108 Iraqis suspected of involvement in the brutal campaign by insurgents to topple the Shiite-led government. An Iraqi believed to be a top terror leader in northern Iraq also was captured by U.S. and Iraqi forces in Mosul, and Iraqi Lt. Col. Abu Fahad Alkhasali said 19 suspected insurgents...

LATIFIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - A car bomb exploded in the trouble spot of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, leaving many killed and wounded, the local hospital director told AFP. "There were many dead and wounded," said Dr. Daoud al-Tai, head of the hospital in Latifiyah, the town after Mahmudiya. The doctor said he could not keep track of the casualties because many were taken to Baghdad. The powerful blast ripped the Husseiniyah district, where there are numerous stores and homes, at 6:30 pm (1530 GMT). "Columns of smoke shot up in the sky after the blast, which destroyed at least four...

Missile Facilities Al Qa-Qa State Establishment Other Names: Latifiyah Double Base Propellant Plant; Latifiyah SSM Equipment Production Facility, Al Qa-Qa Establishment Salah Al-Din Plant; Salah Al-Din Powder Factory, Khaled Plant, Al Qa-Qa Ammo and Explosives Plant Location: Baghdad, Latifiyah, approximately 60km south of Baghdad Subordinate to: Military Industrialization Commission Primary Function: Production of double-base propellants, nitric acid, explosives. Description: Al Qa-Qa State Establishment was a huge facility located in Latifiyah, adjacent to the Rashid Establishment, Ma'moun Factory. The site contained five main production sub-areas, including those for double-base propellants, explosives, and nitric acids as well as smaller facilities for warhead...