Mosul police repel coordinated insurgent attacks: US military

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Police stations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul came under coordinated attack by insurgents, but were successfully repelled by Iraqi police, the US military revealed.



"Four Mosul police stations came under attack by indirect fire and small arms fire during coordinated attacks by insurgent fighters," a statement said of the attacks which took place Friday.


"The Iraqi police at these stations successfully repelled these attacks preventing a recurrence of the events of November 10 when many stations were abandoned," it said Saturday.


The attacks came as US-led forces continue to scour the city for insurgents, who effectively took over the city before mounting coordinated attacks against police stations there in November, prompting 80 percent of the 5,000-strong force to quit.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041204/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_mosul&cid=1514&ncid=1480

However, what's left out of the story is 1 US soldier killed and 1 wounded in Baquba.

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MOSUL FIREFIGHT


In other violence, one U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded on Saturday when a roadside bomb hit their convoy near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokeswoman said.


The attack raised to at least 990 the number of U.S. troops killed since the war was launched last year.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041204/wl_nm/iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

[maddezmom]

1. more on yesterday's attacks in Mosul

The latest clashes were widely reported Friday, but details had been sketchy. On Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement that the fighting began when insurgents attacked four police stations but were repelled.


The statement said about 70 insurgents also tried to ambush a U.S. patrol with roadside bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire. After regrouping, U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an assault on "pockets of resistance" in Mosul, killing more than two dozen insurgents.


On Friday, 11 carloads of gunmen drove up to the police station in Baghdad's western Amil district and attacked it with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire, killing 16 officers. Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's militant group claimed responsibility for that attack.


Another car bomb attack Friday at a Shiite mosque in the Sunni stronghold of Azamiyah killed 14 people and wounded 19 gathering for a Friday prayer service. That attack was followed by insurgents and Iraqi government forces fighting for about two hours around a nearby police station.

[YankeyMCC]

2. Were

those stations manned by Kurds?

[redstateblues]

3. Juan Cole's blog is a more trustworthy source for Iraq news

http://www.juancole.com/

[maddezmom]

4. Seventeen Kurdish militiamen killed in northern Iraq car bomb

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041204/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_blast_kurds&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[teryang]

5. Well, I guess this victory is another "turning point!"

The effort to make it sound like indigeneous forces supported by our military regime have a chance of securing control of Iraq is pathetic.