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Car Bombs Kill at Least 20 as Attacks Roil Northern Iraq

Jun- 7-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

News from Northern Iraq with a mention of the Stryker Brigade

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By EDWARD WONG, New York Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 7 - Insurgents set off three simultaneous suicide car bombs this morning at checkpoints around a rebel town in northern Iraq, killing at least 20 Iraqis and wounding 30 others, a police chief said. At least seven other Iraqis were killed or found dead throughout the country, while a suicide car bomb in Baghdad injured 28 people. [...]

Farther north, in the hostile town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, American armor rolled through the streets in another attempt to root out the insurgency there. Tal Afar, a town of mostly Turkmen, lies near the Syrian border and is believed to be a staging post for foreign fighters entering the country from Syria. American forces have never been able to control the town, and it was a "no-go zone" for much of the summer of 2004.

More recently, during the American-led offensive in Falluja last November, Tal Afar and the Sunni neighborhoods of Mosul erupted in open rebellion, forcing the Stryker Brigade and Army units attached to Task Force Freedom to step up the pace of operations and patrols.

In northeast Mosul today, four Kurds were killed when gunmen in three separate cars surrounded the vehicle carrying the Kurds and opened fire, witnesses said. "After the armed men fled, we approached the car of the dead," said Ahmed Saber, a 35-year-old taxi driver. "I found ID's which were written in Kurdish and had the Kurdish flag on them." [...]


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