Several Iraqi guards killed

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/41A5FC2D-0A63-4087-B62C-7CAD8B633E70.htm


Six members of the Iraqi National Guard were killed on Friday as fighting across Iraq targeted US-led forces.

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Aljazeera said that in the northern city of Mosul, US and Iraqi National Guard forces raided the Saad Bin Ma'aath mosque after Friday prayers. They were searching for the mosque's imam, who was not there at the time.

A US military vehicle, part of a US patrol, was damaged in the Samilat district in Abu Ghraib when an explosive device was detonated by fighters on Friday, Aljazeera said.

It also learned that a house used as a base by US troops in the Zaidan District in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, came under heavy mortar fire. Eyewitnesses said a number of US soldiers were hit in the attack.