From the ArcaMax Publishing, News & Features Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/newsheadlines/s-350499-904032
BAGHDAD (UPI) -- As many as 11 police draftees were killed Tuesday in
an attack on a recruitment station near the northern Iraq city of
Mosul, police officials said.
The draftees were shot at the facility in the al-Baaj province west of
the city, KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency, reported.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi military official said there were no reports of
violence Tuesday in Baghdad's Sadr City as Iraqi security forces began
clearing mines and confiscating weapons, the Los Angeles Times
reported.
Iraqi troops moved into the neighborhood after reaching an agreement
to end weeks of fighting between government forces and militiamen
loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. The pact is intended to
restore stability and clear the area of weapons and outlaws.
Operation Peace and Security began at dawn, Maj. Gen. Qassim Musawi
said. The Iraqi government plans to provide humanitarian aid and
improve services once the military operation ends, he said.
U.S. forces aren't participating in the operation.
A U.S.military spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Steven Stover, said the
operation was a "turning point where we start seeing ... criminals
picked up by the Iraqi security forces and a lasting peace for the
Iraqi people."