European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              July 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 bombs were made to look like Street curbs iraqi troops discover factory near Mosul stars and stripes american and iraqi soldiers in Mosul have discovered a facility used to make Roadside bombs shaped like Street the discovery gives some More insight into How far insurgents have gone to hide the which have been the leading cause of death and injuries for troops in earlier this soldiers from the 4th 2nd iraqi army division and other units found the bomb making facility in the Al Sinai neighbourhood of included in the find were 400 pounds of ammonium 1 1 deaths in Iraq 1 associated press As of at least members of the Mil itary have died since the begin Ning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a re sult of hostile ing to the military the a count is one less than the defense depart ments last updated the British military has re ported 159 Italy has re ported 33 deaths 18 20 13 11 seven Al five four Netherlands and v 2nd brigade combat 2nd infantry Tencey to a oneyear prison term should have said Steven Merkes pleaded guilty to a merkes1 acts did not Lead to the awarding of a contract to the payer of the illegal Gritu Phillip fragmentation Cement and holds for and sever Al batteries and other bomb Mak ing at least one completed cur shaped bomb also was All of the material was destroyed where it was officials no iraqi soldiers or american troops were officials Roadside bombs have been both buried under roadways and disguised to look like other com Mon officials said the curb bombs were most Likely to be command detonated that detonated by an not by a pressure plate or triggering de vice that reacts to photo Courtesy of the iraqi army an improvised explosive device discovered by american and iraqi soldiers on june 8 near Mosul was designed to look like a Street Ali iraqis stand at the site of an explosion in the Amin neighbourhood of Eastern Baghdad where troops and militants clashed an iraqi photographer and Driver employed by Reuters news Agency were killed while in the the Londo based Agency raid in Baghdad Sparks fight 19 reported dead including women and Reuters news team Bylee Keath the associated press Baghdad troops raided a shiite area of Baghdad on two Mili Tants believed linked to and sparking a Battle that iraqi officials said killed 19 two employees of the Reuters news an iraqi photographer arid his were angry residents of Amin District Many of them shiites who fled to Baghdad from where troops Are waging an offensive against used helicopters of striking buildings during the fight and kill ing the military did not immediately among the dead were at least one woman and two children some of the men slain appeared to have been armed and firing on the iraqi police and Hospital officials forces have been waging an intensified Security crack Down against shiite and sunni militants in and around Baghdad for nearly a As the iraqi government struggles to make Politi Cal the violence began with a predawn raid by forces that the military said captured two militants involved in kidnappings and planting Roadside bombs against and iraqi Mili Tants fired a rocket propelled Gre Nade at the hitting a near by the military said in a the militants belonged to Irani a backed special groups linked to the Mahdi the militia Loyal to shiite cleric Muntada after the initial troops surrounded the neighbor Hood for several announcing with loudspeakers to Resi dents that the soldiers were seek ing militants and residents should stay said an iraqi police official who was at the As the americans withdrew around 11 they came under prompting troops to move Back into the assaulting several the official a attack helicopter struck targets on the he the result was a Battle with militants that included mortars and the official several explosions hit residential build killing eight including a woman and two said the official and another police officer involved in counting the they could not say whether the blasts came from the helicopter or from officials from the three Hospi tals where the victims were taken put the toll at 19 dead and 20 among the dead were an iraqi photographer for Reu Namir and a Driver Saeed the Londo based news Agency stolen in Bank robbery guards suspected in Baghdad heist by Joseph Giordono stars and stripes guards of a Bank in downtown Baghdad allegedly robbed it of million in american currency and escaped into the City with one the largest hauls in iraqi officials said Interior ministry officials said that two or three guards were involved in robbing the Darel Salaam Bank in the Saadoun District in Central officials con firmed that the Money was in american dollars and not iraqi i another unconfirmed by government said the robbers also made off with some Worth of iraqi iraqi Security officials Are investigating the but Early speculation is that because the Rob Bers were Able to get through the various checkpoints in they were tied to militias or rogue Security the guards reportedly slept in the Bank As part of their regular duties but have not been seen since the it was unclear Why so much Cash much More than usual was on officials the robbery was discovered when employees showed up in the morn found the doors unlocked and the vaults the heist would be the second largest in iraqi and one of the largest on record in March just hours be fore the bombing Campaign in Iraq Hussein and members of his family took an estimated billion in Cash from Iraq Central in that Hussein sons and other High ranking govern ment officials essentially abducted Bank forced them to open and then drove off with the Money in three at various times throughout the military officials have announced the finding and seizure of huge amounts of Cash and much of the Money has been tied to financing the the robbing of Banks to fund militant organizations is not Irish Republican army gunmen Are alleged to have stolen millions from Irish and British and in the palestinian libera Tion organization robbed some million in Cash and other valuables from a British Bank in email Joseph Giordono at