Suicide bombers target US troops in Iraq
HADITHA: Insurgents attacked US troops with two suicide car bombs in the western Iraqi town of Haditha on Friday, local witnesses said.
They said a suicide bomber detonated a car next to a US patrol after American troops entered the town looking for insurgents. A second suicide car bomb exploded as US troops were securing the area after the first attack, witnesses said. The US military had no immediate comment on the attacks. Haditha is in the Sunni Arab-dominated Anbar province, one of the centres of the insurgency in Iraq.
An Iraqi-Swedish Christian politician kidnapped in Baghdad in January and threatened with beheading was freed unharmed on Friday, Swedish officials said.
Minas al-Yousifi, the 60-year-old leader of Iraq’s Christian Democrats who returned from exile in Sweden to reestablish the party two years ago, was abducted by the Iraqi Vengeance Batallion, Martyr al-Isawi Brigade.
US and coalition force levels in Iraq ought to decline over time as Iraqi security forces become more capable but they will “bulge” during key election periods later this year, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday. agencies
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