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US bombs Mosul as insurgents flock in
(TurkishPress.com, 11/11/2004)
The US military said it attacked suspected rebel targets in Mosul with air and ground fire on Thursday after an upsurge in violence as gunmen were seen flocking into Iraq's main northern city. . . . Violence also flared in the refinery city of Baiji to the south where gunmen attacked the local administration building. . . . As night descended on Mosul the sound of explosions and gunfire echoed through the centre. . . . Only gunmen roamed the city's deserted streets, after a curfew was declared on Wednesday. . . . An AFP correspondent saw at least 12 pickup trucks filled with about 10 fighters each enter the city from the northwest from the towns of Rabia, Sinjar and Tal Afar. . . . But in simmering lawlessness on Thursday, masked rebels stormed into six Iraqi police stations in the city, 370 kilometres (230 miles) north of Baghdad, seizing weapons and torching buildings, an AFP correspondent said. . . . In what appeared to be a coordinated attack, armed men pulled up in front of police stations in various parts of the city, forcing policemen out. . . . Dozens of gunmen were seen fanning out on the city streets and some hunkered behind sandbags and fired mortar rounds on US and Iraqi forces stationed on four of Mosul's five main bridges. . . . Speaking on Monday, the same day that the massive offensive was launched on the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq's Defence Minister Hazem Shaalan vowed to cleanse the predominantly Sunni Arab city of Mosul of Arab fighters. . . . "We will launch operations in Mosul, because some groupings that came from neighbouring western countries are trying to step up terror operations there," he said referring to Syria. . . . A US general also hinted at further offensives after the battle for Fallujah.

posted by LoZo 5:48 PM