.Saudis killed in Kirkuk police raid
Two Saudi militants have been killed by Iraqi security forces and US troops during a raid on their hideout southwest of Kirkuk.
The Director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department Sarhad Qader told Voices of Iraq news agency that three suspected al-Qaeda terrorists were killed on Sunday in a joint mission by American and Iraqi soldiers at the town of Wadi al-Khanazee, some 45 km (30 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Two of the dead militants were identified as Saudi nationals.
The senior security official noted that two jackets laden with explosives, a precision rifle and a considerable munitions cache were discovered in the operation.
Qader went on to say that the operation was carried out upon intelligence tip-offs that the gunmen were planning terrorist attacks in Kirkuk.
Thousands of Saudi nationals have slipped into war-shattered Iraq since the US invasion in March 2003.
PressTV
The Director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department Sarhad Qader told Voices of Iraq news agency that three suspected al-Qaeda terrorists were killed on Sunday in a joint mission by American and Iraqi soldiers at the town of Wadi al-Khanazee, some 45 km (30 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Two of the dead militants were identified as Saudi nationals.
The senior security official noted that two jackets laden with explosives, a precision rifle and a considerable munitions cache were discovered in the operation.
Qader went on to say that the operation was carried out upon intelligence tip-offs that the gunmen were planning terrorist attacks in Kirkuk.
Thousands of Saudi nationals have slipped into war-shattered Iraq since the US invasion in March 2003.
PressTV
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