Iraq: US military says 3 insurgents killed, 19 captured in raids along Tigris River valley

: U.S. military units killed three suspected insurrectionists and captured 19 Thursday inch forays targeting al-Qaida in Republic Of Iraq along the Tigris River River valley, the military said.

In one operation North of Baghdad, military personnel captured a adult male suspected of engagement in planning auto bomb attacks, the military said in a statement. Five more than suspects were also detained, and an armed adult male was killed during the operation near Khalis, 80 kilometres (50 miles) North of Baghdad, it said.

Meanwhile south of the capital, American soldiers captured another wanted adult male near Youssifiyah, the military said. He is suspected of being associated with al-Qaida inch Iraq, and of planning onslaughts on U.S. military personnel in the area, it said. The adult male came forward and identified himself to land troops, who arrested him and another suspect, the statement said.

Two work force were killed inch Mosul, 360 kilometres (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, in an operation targeting an alleged al-Qaida in Republic Of Iraq leader, the military said. One of the men, armed with a knife, lunged at U.S. military personnel as they entered a building. Soldiers shot and killed him, along with another adult male in the edifice who was wrapped in cover with wires protruding from it, the military said.

It did not state whether the intended mark was among six suspects captured there, nor whether the wires in the cover were subsequently identified as explosives. Today in Africa & Center East

Five more than suspects were detained North of Beiji, 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of Baghdad, the statement said.