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US fights in northern Iraq as charter readied

Sep- 6-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

SBCT Operations in Rawah

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By Maher al-Thanoon, Reuters

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar was on edge on Tuesday after at least seven civilians were killed during an operation by Iraqi and U.S. troops against insurgents there.

In Baghdad, a parliamentary panel drafting a new constitution said last-minute efforts to fine-tune the text to overcome objections from minority Sunni Arabs had failed.

Five million copies of the new document will go into print starting on Thursday, in time for a referendum due by October 15.

At least seven civilians have been killed and 13 wounded in violence in Tal Afar, a hospital source told Reuters, and the U.S. military said one U.S. soldier had died when his vehicle was struck by a bomb there on Monday.

Iraqi police and troops backed by U.S. forces launched the operation some days ago in Tal Afar, which they say is a conduit for foreign fighters slipping into the country. [...]


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