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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2008 – Coalition forces in Iraq today captured 10 suspected terrorists and found a weapons cache during several anti-insurgent operations conducted across the country, military officials said. -- In Tarmiyah, coalition forces captured an alleged associate of the al Qaeda in Iraq senior leader for the network north of Baghdad. Reports indicate the detainee and his son were subordinates to the terrorist senior leader. The suspect allegedly left his position within the network, but remained actively engaged in attacks against coalition forces. Three other suspected terrorists also were detained. The operation also yielded an enemy weapons cache...

TAJI, Iraq - More than 1,200 Iraqi males from in and around Tarmiyah stood in line for hours to join Iraqi Security Forces, local sheiks and Coalition Forces in the fight against al-Qaeda and other insurgent militias in Tarmiyah Sept. 12. Local sheiks and CF from 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment reached out to the Iraqi people, asking the citizens of the small town of Tarmiyah to volunteer to defend their homes and neighborhoods against the terrorist insurgency in their town. This concept of the people standing against al-Qaeda and other insurgents has been dubbed an "awakening," or the mental...

Excerpt - BAGHDAD - U.S. troops clashed with suspected Sunni insurgents holed up in a mosque north of Baghdad and launched an air-to-ground Hellfire missile into the structure. One American soldier was killed in the fighting, the military said Friday. The soldier was killed and another was wounded when the troops came under fire from the Honest Mohammed Mosque about 11 p.m. Thursday in Tarmiyah as they targeted about six insurgents who were believed sheltered inside, said Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly, a military spokesman for northern Iraq. The U.S. forces then spotted gunmen on the roof and sent the Sunni...