- FALLUJAH - US forces have
killed up to 13 Iraqis and wounded scores in a fresh raid into the restive
Iraqi town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
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- Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded outside a police station
in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday morning, August 1, killing at
least five people and injuring up to 34 others.
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- "We have 13 killed and 13 wounded, doctor Bilal
Jassem at Fallujah's main hospital told Agence France-Presse (AFP), about
the Fallujah raid which took part Saturday night, July 31.
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- The same toll was given by Lieutenant Walid Mohammad
of the Iraqi police.
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- The US military had earlier said in a statement that
it targeted "insurgents in Fallujah with artillery and air fire after
they attacked a marine position in the city with mortar rounds, rocket-propelled
grenades and small arms.
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- Marines first responded with tanks and artillery fire,
it said, adding that there were no marine casualties and "no information
about any insurgent losses.
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- Residents said they heard loud explosions that appeared
to come from the Shuhada neighborhood in the south of the city, targeted
by previous US air strikes.
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- "I heard a very powerful explosion around 10:30
pm (1830 GMT) coming from the Shuhada neighborhood," an unnamed resident
told AFP.
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- The US military has carried out at least seven air strikes
over the past month on Fallujah. Reports contradict about the targets of
the raids.
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- The US military insists the raids target suspected hideouts
of loyalists of alleged Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi. Iraqis
and hospital sources, however, say the raids target Iraqi houses and most
victims are usually women and children. Most of the raids hit targets in
southern Fallujah.
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- Acting on tips from Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi, US occupation troops in Iraq dropped on July 5 two tons of bombs
on Fallujah, killing at least 13 people.
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- At least 700 Iraqis, mostly women and children, were
killed and 1500 others injured when the US occupation forces imposed a
tight siege on the city and intensified air strikes on its densely-populated
areas.
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- On Sunday, a fresh car bomb devastated a police station
in Mosul, killing at least five people, including three policemen, and
injuring up to 50 others.
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- The car detonated in an eastern district of the city,
destroying parts of the police station, houses, police cars and a dozen
civilian vehicles, Reuters news agency reported, citing police sources.
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- The dead were police and the wounded were a mix of police
and civilians, they said.
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- Iraqi police stations have been a prime target for car
bombs over the past year.
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- On Wednesday, July 28, 70 people were killed and more
than 50 wounded in a car bomb attack near a police recruiting center in
Baquba, north of Baghdad.
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- On July 14, a car bomb killed at least 10 people near
the heavily-guarded Green Zone in Baghdad.
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- Iraqi scholars had ruled such indiscriminate attacks
were strictly prohibited in Islam, stressing, in the meantime, the legitimacy
of the unabated resistance operations against the US-led occupation troops.
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- http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-08/01/article02.shtml
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