Attack against American base in Karkouk
Gunmen launched on early morning Friday an attack against Karkouk airport, 255 km northeast of Baghdad, the main base for the American forces using Katyusha missiles.
Col. Adel Zein Eddine from Karkouk police said that three Katyusha missiles fell on the airport, west of the city. He said that the American forces surrounded al-Wasiti quarters and Huzeiran (June) in search of the attackers.
For his part, a spokesman for the American army said that two Katyusha missiles fell at the base but no human casualties were reported.
For his part, a spokesman for the American army said that two Katyusha missiles fell at the base, but no human casualties were reported.
The American forces detained 6 gunmen in al-Hweijah quarters, 50 km west of Karkouk, after receiving information that they are in a house in the center of it.
In Tel-Afer, west of al-Musil in north of Iraq, confrontations continued between the American forces and gunmen. An American-Iraqi joint military statement said that the American and Iraqi forces killed and detained large number of gunmen.
One American army general said on Thursday that the US is studying launching a comprehensive military attack in the next weeks against the town which it considers as a headquarters for gunmen.
In Baghdad, the police said that one policeman was killed and other five injured when gunmen opened fire at their vehicle, west of Baghdad.
A source at the Iraqi ministry of interior said that unidentified gunmen detonated a Shiite mosque in al-Doura area, south of Baghdad, which is inhabited by Sunnis and Shiites. The explosions resulted in injuring the guard of the building. The source which asked to be anonymous said that "unidentified gunmen detonated al-Rasoul ( the prophet) mosque and Huseinieh. The source explained that the gunmen planted explosives around the mosque and this resulted in the collapse of large part of the building and the burning of all its content.
In the same context, the police found six unidentified bodies in a water filtering station southeast of Baghdad. The same place where during the four past days, 17 unidentified bodies were found with tied hands and legs and veiled eyes and gunfire was opened at them from a close distance.