Iraqi police lead raid on Saddam fighters

Iraqi security forces, backed by US military police, carried out their largest joint raid today in a bid to break the resistance movement in Saddam Hussein’s turbulent home town.

The overnight raid in Tikrit involved more than 200 American-trained Iraqi police and dozens of soldiers from the US Army’s 720th Military Police Battalion. The Iraqis were trained by the MPs, one of the only US military units that patrols the city on a daily basis.