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Almost 1,000 detained in Iraq terror crackdown
18/05/2008 - 16:55:22

Nearly 1,000 people have been detained in a sweep to break al-Qaida in Iraq’s sway in mosul, the country’s third largest city.

Many fighters had fled to nearby areas, where troops were hunting for them, Iraqi officials said.

Iraq’s leaders presented the crackdown as a success so far in depriving the terror network of what has been its most prominent urban stronghold since it lost hold of cities in Iraq’s western Anbar province.



           

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