US SOLDIER KILLED FRIDAY: 44 PERSONS ARRESTED IN VIOLENT ACTS

Baghdad, Apr 18, (VOI)- One U.S. soldier was killed while 44 persons were arrested in acts of violence that took place in Iraq from 2:30pm until 9:30 pm on Friday, security sources said.

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Friday , 18 /04 /2008 Time 10:32:16
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The U.S. army said on Friday that one of its soldiers was killed in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad.The death brings the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the beginning of military operations in March 2003 to 4038.In Basra, Major General Abdul-Kareem Khalaf, director of the Ministry of Interior's operations room, said that a total of 35 wanted men were arrested on Friday in the southern city of Basra.

“The forces managed to arrest 35 wanted men, including an accused suspected of involvement in 28 murder crimes in Basra, in addition to another accused suspected of being involved in the attempt on the life of one of top Shiite Cleric Ali al-Sistani's representatives in Basra,” he added.

In Ninewa, the official spokesman for the Ninewa operations command said Iraqi security forces on Friday arrested nine wanted men of al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq armed group.“The forces arrested the wanted men during a crackdown operation in Nables, Resala and al-Islah al-Zeraai neighborhoods in western Mosul,” Brigadier Khaled Abdul Sattar said.“The detainees are members of what is called Islamic State of Iraq in Mosul,” he added, noting that the leader of the group is among the detainees.