Two American troops were killed and six injured in an "accidental" explosion in northern Iraq. The blast took place at Sinjar, 120 kilometres west of the main northern city of Mosul, while the troops were involved in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), a US spokesman said Monday.
Earlier, US and Iraqi forces de-activated several rockets on a road, primed for launch toward a city north of the capital Baghdad, and four people were arrested elsewhere with manuals showing how to produce bombs, officials said Monday.
The rockets were discovered on a road near Diyala University outside Bakouba, and were ready to be fired toward the city, a US Army captain said, requesting anonymity.
Meanwhile, the US army distributed a new poster offering a total of 16.5 million dollars for the capture of the five most wanted men in Iraq.
The picture of Saddam Hussein's deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, came first on the list, with a 10-million-dollar bounty.
Next came Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian said to be leading an Al-Qaeda affiliated group operating in Iraq, who has a five million-dollar price on his head.
A member of Saddam's outlawed Baath party command, Mohammed Yunes al-Ahmad, is worth one million dollars to whoever turns him in, the AFP reported.
Numbers four and five on the list each have 250,000-dollar bounties. They are Abdulbaki Abdulkarim Abdullah al-Saadun, the head of the Baath party military bureau in Diyala province, east of Baghdad, and Moamar Ahmad Yussef al-Jaber, who is described as "the deputy of a terrorist chief." (Albawaba.com)
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