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By ROBERT F. WORTH and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 28 - Four Iraqi civilians were killed Sunday afternoon when a car bomb exploded 60 miles north of here in Samarra, and another was wounded, military officials said. In raids to the north, in Mosul, American and Iraqi troops detained 43 people suspected of being insurgents, military officials said. [...]
In Mosul, American and Iraqi forces detained 16 people after raiding mosques and other buildings during two operations on Saturday in Old Mosul, a densely populated district in the city center that is believed to be a haven for insurgents. In one of the raids, troops found a 55-gallon drum of bomb-making materials, money, anti-American propaganda and other documents intended to foster insurgent attacks on American forces, military officials said.
In addition, four more bodies were found in Mosul on Sunday, military officials said. The bodies, which had been shot in the head, had been laid on the ground with spent 9-millimeter pistol casings placed on their chests, said Lt. Col. Erik Kurilla, the commander of the American battalion that oversees much of western Mosul. The hands and feet of the bodies had also been bound, he said.
At least 69 bodies have been found in and around Mosul in the past 10 days, most of them believed to be the victims of a strategy by insurgents to terrorize and destabilize the new Iraqi security forces before national elections are held in January. Many victims have been identified as Iraqi national guardsmen or members of the Iraqi Army. Colonel Kurilla said it was not clear yet whether the victims found Sunday were with the Iraqi security forces.