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Activity in Mosul

Apr-10-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT , Iraq News

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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. army said on Saturday it killed 12 insurgents in northern Iraq, destroying their truck with a missile after the guerrillas opened fire.

"A patrol from 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment was engaged by 12 assailants in a truck with a rocket-propelled grenade near Al Thubat," a U.S. statement said. "The patrol returned fire with a missile, destroying the truck and killing all 12 assailants."

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CAIRO, Egypt (AP)--A top Iraqi Red Crescent official and his wife were killed Saturday in an apparent attack on their car in northern Iraq, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

The head of the Red Crescent's Irbil office, Barzan Umer Mantik, and his wife were killed in the nearby city of Mosul, Nada Doumani, spokeswoman of the Iraqi delegation of the ICRC, told The Associated Press office in Egypt in a telephone interview.


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