Sunday, November 26, 2006
Male insurgent found dressed as a woman
Insurgency
US forces have killed four insurgents and detained 11, including one disguised as a woman nursing a baby, in a raid north of Baghdad, said the military. The four insurgents were killed immediately in a gunbattle that erupted when US forces arrived at the house near the restive city of Baquba, a common site for sectarian violence and killings.
US forces rounded up 11 other men in the house and confiscated a number of weapons, including a mortar, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. "One of the terrorists was hiding in a house dressed as a woman, pretending to nurse a baby," said the statement.
Baquba, and the surrounding province of Diyala, has been the scene of some of the worst fighting and bloodiest killings in Iraq, thanks to a Sunni insurgency with links to Al-Qaeda bent on expelling the Shiite population from this mixed province. On Saturday, up to 30 insurgents were killed in clashes with US and Iraqi forces, while 21 Shiite farmers were shot dead execution style the night before.
US forces rounded up 11 other men in the house and confiscated a number of weapons, including a mortar, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. "One of the terrorists was hiding in a house dressed as a woman, pretending to nurse a baby," said the statement.
Baquba, and the surrounding province of Diyala, has been the scene of some of the worst fighting and bloodiest killings in Iraq, thanks to a Sunni insurgency with links to Al-Qaeda bent on expelling the Shiite population from this mixed province. On Saturday, up to 30 insurgents were killed in clashes with US and Iraqi forces, while 21 Shiite farmers were shot dead execution style the night before.
