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July 14, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.statesman.com/aponline/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9780.AP-Iraq-US-Operati.html

U.S. Forces Kill 4 Insurgents in Offensive Against Baathists and Wahhabis

(AP/Austin American-Statesman) American forces killed four suspected insurgents and arrested more than 50 people as they launched a fourth major offensive in central Iraq. "The goal is to knock the Baath Party and the Wahhabi elements off balance,'' said Lt. Col. Nat Sassaman, a battalion commander. Wahhabism is the fundamentalist type of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and in parts of central Iraq.

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