4 Officers, Interpreter Are Slain in Iraq Violence
Four officers of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and three insurgents were killed Friday during a raid near Tikrit, a U.S. military spokeswoman said.
She said four other officers were wounded and 21 suspected insurgents were captured.
U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces regularly raid homes and villages from their base in Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad, looking for insurgents.
Meanwhile, a Time magazine spokesman, Ty Trippet, said an Iraqi interpreter who worked for the magazine died of gunshot wounds Friday in a Baghdad hospital, two days after he was shot. Omar Hashim Kamal, 48, had received threats, Trippet said.
In Baghdad this morning, a roadside bomb exploded in a commercial area near the Tigris River, destroying two cars. There was an unconfirmed reported of at least one injury.
The explosion followed a volley of rockets fired near a U.S. military camp close to the capital’s Muthana airport Friday night. About a dozen people were hurt, witnesses said.
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