Rebels strike Iraqi forces after Bin Laden call
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TIKRIT, Iraq - Insurgents overran a police post near Saddam Hussein&#39;s home town on Tuesday, hauled out 12 men and shot them dead in a dramatic show of force, a day after Osama bin Laden declared holy war on the US-backed election.
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Insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's  election in Iraq killed 10 Iraqis and five U.S. troops on  Friday but the government said it had caught three al Qaeda  lieutenants and insisted guerrillas were on the defensive.
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Osama bin Laden called for Iraqi insurgents to unite and avoid divisive "extremism," speaking in an audiotape aired Monday and apparently intended to win over Sunnis opposed to al-Qaida's branch in Iraq.
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Iraqi soldiers and US troops Tuesday targeted seven mosques in Ramadi in a bid to roust insurgents and their weaponry, CNN reported.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, and hospital officials said at least 80 people were killed.
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US-led forces launched operations in three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Falluja for the third straight day.
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U.S. forces launched attacks Thursday in the western towns of Fallujah and Ramadi, hunting insurgents belonging to the network of terror mastermind Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, a military statement said.
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Insurgents unleashed attacks yesterday that killed at least 19 Iraqis in Samarra and wounded 20 US troops near Ramadi, in an apparent
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Rebels made major attacks today against a Shiite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing up to 30 people, including at least 16 police officers.
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US and Iraqi forces have raided mosques in a western rebel stronghold, after US warplanes flattened a popular restaurant in another town overnight.
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U.S. forces launched air strikes on the rebel-held city of Fallujah on Monday, targeting what they said was a meeting of key loyalists of their top foe in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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American forces unleashed a strike yesterday against a suspected hide-out used by associates of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah and troops battled insurgents on a main thoroughfare in the Iraqi capital, authorities said.
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An audiotape on an Islamic websitesupposedly posted by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Fridayurged rebels in Fallujah to continue to fight against the US forceswho launched
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US and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, and hospital officials said at least 21 people were killed and 35 wounded.
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Iraqi security forces killed dozens of al Qaeda militants who attacked a village in western Anbar province on Wednesday, during fierce clashes that lasted much of the day, police officials said on Thursday.
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US and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday after launching an operation to destroy an alleged militant cell in the town of Tal Afar, the US military said.
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Guerrillas killed 17 Iraqi policemen  and tried to assassinate a National Guard general with a car  bomb on Tuesday, hours after Osama bin Laden called on Iraqis  to boycott next month's election.