U.S. forces killed five suspects and detained ten others in two days of operations in Iraq across central and northern parts of the country, AP quoted the military as saying. One of the targets was an alleged member of a terror network involved in roadside bomb attacks, mortar barrages and the planning of suicide operations in the Arab Jabour area, south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. When American troops arrived at the building where the man was believed to be hiding, they saw five men leaving the area, and called in helicopter gunships to fire at them, the statement said. All five were killed, it said. The military did not say whether any of the five was the terror suspect they had sought. U.S. troops then secured the area and found four AK-47 machine guns, two assault vests and two grenades. Another cache with three anti-aircraft weapons and a large amount of ammunition was found in an adjacent building, the military said. In another operation in southern Baghdad, U.S. troops captured a man believed to be a car bomb cell leader, the statement said. Another suspect was detained in the same raid. Meanwhile, American soldiers arrested six suspects south of Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad. One of the men was wounded by a U.S. sniper after he allegedly tried to fire on the troops, the statement said. He was treated at a combat hospital and then detained for questioning, it said. Two more suspects were captured in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, the military said.
