different story/results fom the one already posted below. EFL
Insurgents attacked a police station Wednesday for a second day in a row, but U.S. and Iraqi forces captured 50 of them after a two-hour gunbattle. About 60 gunmen attacked the police station in Madain, south of Baghdad, with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles, said police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammadawi. U.S. troops and a special Iraqi police unit responded, catching the insurgents in crossfire, he said.
| An American-style crossfire! No 3 am stroll, no shutter guns and no rounds of bullet to be recovered, just a lot of dead terrorists. |
Four police were killed, including the commander of the special unit, and five were wounded, al-Mohammadawi said. None of the attackers died, and among the captives was a Syrian.
Madain, 14 miles southeast of Baghdad, is at the northern tip of Iraq's Sunni-dominated “Triangle of Death,” a region rife with sectarian violence – retaliatory kidnappings and killings in the underground conflict between Sunnis and Shiites. |