US troops raid petrol station in Iraq's Mosul, arrest 12

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Dozens of US soldiers from the 1st battalion 24th infantry regiment descended on Al-Nashima filling station in the Yarmuk neighbourhood, known as a haunt of insurgents, an AFP reporter witnessed.


They did not find the owner but arrested 12 workers at the station. The men, including six security guards, were handcuffed, blindfolded and led away for questioning.


The US soldiers broke into the owner's office, seizing money and documents, and carted away a big metal safe. They also took four automatic rifles and several bullet magazines.


The soldiers stuck yellow stickers on the building walls reading: "Terrorist operations are being launched from this residential area", and tossed around flyers saying: "We have come to visit you and you were not home, but do not worry we will arrest you and your friends very soon".


"We believe the owner was supplying gasoline to several terrorist cells in the city," said Captain Bryan Carroll, adding that five of the man's accomplices were also wanted.



A group of handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi men wait to led away after a US military raid in Mosul. US soldiers raided one of the biggest gas stations on Mosul's west side in search of the owner who they said they suspected of supplying fuel to insurgents in the restive northern Iraqi city.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)

Nice graffiti eh?....