| A U.S. aircraft has dropped a quarter-tonne (500 lb) bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after guerrillas attacked a U.S. patrol that was trying to capture an insurgent arms dump, a military spokesman said. The powerful blast on Saturday shook the west of the city. There was an "unknown number of enemy casualties" and eight soldiers were slightly wounded, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings said. Insurgents had set off a car bomb and then opened fire with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars on the unit that moved on the arms cache. Troops later destroyed the weapons. |