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US army says kills 25 rebels in fierce Iraq fight MOSUL, Iraq, Thursday (Reuters) U.S. troops backed by warplanes killed 25 guerrillas in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday after facing a coordinated assault involving two suicide bombs and dozens of insurgents, the military said. The fighting in Iraq's third largest city followed an overnight attack by insurgents who detonated three-quarters of a tonne of explosives in a house that police were raiding in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people. Witnesses in Mosul said the fighting began when a suicide bomber detonated a fuel truck outside a house that has been occupied as a combat outpost by U.S. troops since last month. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings, U.S. military spokesman in Mosul, said a patrol responding to the blast was attacked by a second suicide car bomb, and also had to deal with several roadside bombs before reaching the combat outpost. Around 50 insurgents then attacked the outpost with assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, Hastings said. "Close air support was called in. Initial estimates are 25 enemy killed," Hastings said. He said 15 U.S. troops were wounded in the clashes. |
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