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US military says kills 22 insurgents in Iraq clashes
25 Nov 2006 10:09:50 GMT
Source: Reuters
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(Adds another clash with insurgents)

BAGHDAD, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed 22 insurgents in two separate clashes on Saturday just north of Baghdad, shortly after carrying out three air strikes that destroyed a bomb-making factory.

In one incident, the U.S. military said in a statement that they killed 12 insurgents including a militant suspected of rigging cars with explosives along a road north of Baghdad.

The U.S. military said earlier they killed 10 insurgents after destroying a bomb-making factory in the town of Taji, a mostly Sunni town near a major U.S. air base, in air strikes.

"After the fighting, Coalition Forces ... discovered significant caches consisting of rocket-propelled grenades, machineguns, anti-aircraft weapons, pipe bombs and more than 3,000 feet of detonation cord," the military said.

It said U.S. forces suffered no casualties, but a teenager was killed and a pregnant woman wounded in one of the clashes.


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