Post-al-Zarqawi raids kill 104 insurgents
(AP)
Updated: 2006-06-15 20:50 American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week's
killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed
during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday.
U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen William
Caldwell, takes questions from journalists about the injuries sustained by
al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that caused his
death following a U.S. airstrike on Wednesday, June 7, 2006, at a press
conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq Monday,
June 12, 2006. [AP] |
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said the
raids were carried out nationwide and led to the discovery of 28 significant
arms caches.
He said 255 of the raids were joint operations, while 143 were carried out by
Iraqi forces alone. The raids also resulted in the captures of 759 "anti-Iraqi
elements."
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