Pitched battles between US troops and Iraqi insurgents in strife-torn Mosul left 25 dead and another 30 people were killed when a Baghdad house rigged with explosives blew up during a police raid.Despite the volatile security situation, US President George W. Bush insisted Iraq’s landmark national elections must go ahead, while a hardline Islamist militant group reiterated its intention to cause bloodshed on the January 30 polling day. In Mosul, insurgents detonated car bombs against a US patrol and a combat outpost and then about 50 fighters launched an assault on the outpost, firing small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, the military said.Full Story
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