U.S. Embassy Rips Senate Plan on Iraq

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By STEVEN R. HURST

BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties believed to have been al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday.

The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile, joined a broad swath of Iraqi politicians - both Shiite and Sunni - in criticizing a nonbinding U.S. Senate resolution seen here as a recipe for splitting the country along sectarian and ethnic lines.


An Iraqi police officer guards two detainees who had been arrested when they were trying to launch a Katusha rocket against Kirkuk airport about 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad this afternoon on Sunday, Sept 30, 2007.The gunmen are belong to Naqshabandi armed group which formed 3 months ago in Kirkuk city to fight the American troops, Kircuk police said. (AP Photo)


U.S. aircraft killed more than 20 al-Qaida in Iraq fighters who opened fire on an American air patrol northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. command said.

The firefight between U.S. aircraft and the insurgent fighters occurred Saturday about 17 miles northwest of the capital, the military said.

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