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US, Iraqi forces launch Baghdad crackdown
United States and Iraqi forces have launched a big operation involving 2,000 troops to crack down on insurgency in the western outskirts of the capital Baghdad.
Iraqi military officials say police commando units have cordoned off areas from where militants have launched numerous attacks in the past.
The areas sealed off include the road leading to Baghdad's international airport and the Abu Ghraib district.
Meanwhile, gunmen have assassinated an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's office, an Interior Ministry official and police sources said.
They said Wael Rubaie and his driver were shot and killed as they drove through the Mansour district of Baghdad.
A car bomb has also exploded near the convoy of a Kurdish official in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu south of Kirkuk, killing at least five people and wounding 18, police said.
They said several people in the convoy of the official, Mohammed Mahmoud Jigareti of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, had been killed and wounded, but the official had survived.
Police said it was not yet clear whether the blast had been a suicide attack.
-AFP/Reuters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1375080.htm
US, Iraqi forces launch Baghdad crackdown
United States and Iraqi forces have launched a big operation involving 2,000 troops to crack down on insurgency in the western outskirts of the capital Baghdad.
Iraqi military officials say police commando units have cordoned off areas from where militants have launched numerous attacks in the past.
The areas sealed off include the road leading to Baghdad's international airport and the Abu Ghraib district.
Meanwhile, gunmen have assassinated an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's office, an Interior Ministry official and police sources said.
They said Wael Rubaie and his driver were shot and killed as they drove through the Mansour district of Baghdad.
A car bomb has also exploded near the convoy of a Kurdish official in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu south of Kirkuk, killing at least five people and wounding 18, police said.
They said several people in the convoy of the official, Mohammed Mahmoud Jigareti of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, had been killed and wounded, but the official had survived.
Police said it was not yet clear whether the blast had been a suicide attack.
-AFP/Reuters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1375080.htm
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