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At least 40 Iraqi militants killed by US soldiers during the week end

Bagdad, Iraq - It was made known by an US military authorities' spokesman

The news is official: during several air raids in the last week end, carried out -in the Southern part of the capital Bagdad- with aircraft and rotorcraft, US military forces deployed in Iraq killed "At least 40 Iraqi militants". In one of the attack also Abu Mustafa, an al Qaeda official and weapons traffiker in the Islamic country, should have been killed. he was wanted by US soldiers becouse considered...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 140884
Rome, Italy, 05/15/2006 18:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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