- Title: IRAQ: TO KILLED IN CAR BOMB ATTTACK ON BAGHDAD POLICE/SPORADIC BATTLES IN FALLUJA
- Date: 19th November 2004
- Summary: (W5) BAGHDAD , IRAQ (NOVEMBER 19 ,2004) (REUTERS) 1. LV OF THE SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV/LV IRAQI POLICE AT THE SITE (3 SHOTS) 0.40 3. LV AMBULANCES ARRIVING TO THE SITE 0.52 4. LV OF THE DAMAGED CARS AND IRAQI POLICE AND U.S. SOLDIERS AT THE SITE 1.47 5. LV U.S. SOLDIERS AND IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS AT THE SITE (3 SHOTS) 2.
- Embargoed: 4th December 2004 12:00
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- Location: BAGHDAD AND FALLUJA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVAA8AHCXD80BBB0LKR2J8BD6JWF
- Story Text: Two killed in car bomb attack on Baghdad police as
US-led troops continued to engage in sporadic battles against rebels
in Falluja.
A suspected suicide car bomb exploded as a convoy of
five police vehicles drove past in Baghdad on Friday
(November 19, 2004), killing at least two people and wounding
five, police said.
Thick smoke rose from the site of the blast and
ambulances raced to the scene, sirens wailing. At least
three gutted cars smouldered in the centre of the road, as
firefighters hosed them with water.
Guerrillas have repeatedly attacked Iraq's police and
security forces.
Meanwhile, US-led troops continued to engage in
sporadic battles against rebels in Falluja on Friday
(November 19) after launching a major assault to wrest the
Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad from insurgents 10 days
ago.
The US-led assault on Falluja has "broken the back of
the insurgency" in Iraq by taking away its safe haven,
scattering operatives and disrupting their command
networks, the top US Marine commander in Iraq said.
Lieutenant General John Sattler said the city was
secure 11 days after the start of Operation Dawn but not
safe, with heavy fighting still erupting in some quarters
of the city as marines and Iraqi government troops clear
buildings of holdouts.
US and Iraqi troops killed some 1,200 militants and
took over 1,000 prisoners in clearing Falluja of rebels,
Sattler said, but a US Marine and an Iraqi soldier were
killed before a tank "silenced" fighters holed up in the
shattered city.
Falluja is effectively under US and Iraqi control, but
the military has yet to declare the end of the largest
operation since last year's US-led invasion of Iraq.
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