5 top Iraqi officers die in al-Qaida hideout raid
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Five senior Iraqi officers, including a major general, and 10 soldiers were killed yesterday in a raid on an al-Qaida hideout in the west of the country, military sources said.
Violence elsewhere killed five policemen and wounded five others, police and medics said.
Major General Mohammed al-Karoui, who headed the army’s 7th Division, was leading an assault on a “hideout of the al-Qaida” network in Sunni-majority Anbar province near the Syrian border.
He was killed along with four other senior army officers and 10 soldiers when they stormed booby-trapped buildings, the military sources said.
“The bombs exploded when the troops entered the buildings,” near Rutba, 380 kilometers west of Baghdad, they said.
The defense ministry said the operation was launched after reports that al-Qaida militants had set up camps in the area to train militants in bomb-making.
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