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MOSUL, NOV. 16. The U.S. military said on Tuesday American and Iraqi troops had started operations to secure parts of northern Mosul from resistance forces, as a mortar attack in the heart of the city left three dead and 25 wounded. Mortars struck two areas close to the government administration building in the city centre, including a market, according to Jumhouri Hospital officials. The U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces began moving in to secure police stations in the western part of the city, closing off the city's five bridges, said a U.S. spokesperson. Mosul is the third largest city in Iraq.
Abandoned stations
About 1,200 U.S. soldiers were taking part in the offensive to recapture about a dozen police stations abandoned by Iraqi police forces after an uprising that sprang up following the U.S.-led attack on Fallujah, she confirmed. Residents reported U.S. warplanes and helicopters hovering over the city, as loud explosions and gunfire were heard near the American base on the northern edge of Mosul A car bomb targeted a U.S. convoy in western Mosul, according to residents. There was no confirmation of the attack from the U.S. military and no word on casualties.
Gunbattle
Eyewitnesses said three police stations already under the control of militants were blown up this morning before the militants left. The Zuhour police station, and a substation in north-eastern Mosul were destroyed, along with Qahira police station in the northern part of the city. No casualties were seen as the stations were controlled by the gunmen. Residents also reported seeing two bullet-riddled bodies on a sidewalk in the Mafraq Domis area of eastern Mosul, one with a police ID card identifying him as Talal al-Jubori. Also on Tuesday, the militants attacked the offices of a key Kurdish party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in a bloody gunbattle that left three attackers dead.
Violent upsurge
A mass militant uprising began in Mosul last week in apparent support of militants in the rebel bastion of Fallujah, just days after the start of the U.S. offensive there Masked and armed bands of men stormed more than a half dozen police stations, bridges and political offices in the city, clashing with U.S. troops and Iraqi forces. The city's police force were overwhelmed, and in many places, failed to put up a fight. Reinforcements of Iraqi National Guards pulled from garrisons along Iran and Syria and a battalion of a special police were sent to Mosul in the wake of the violence. Clashes between American troops and the militants are ongoing.
— AP
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