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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A bomb detonated Friday outside a Sunni mosque near Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing nine civilians and wounding 15 others, police said. The explosion took place in Hibhib, the Diyala provincial town north of Baquba where U.S. aircraft on June 7 bombed a terrorist safe house, killing al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. People were leaving the weekly Friday prayer session at the mosque when the explosive -- hidden in nearby trash -- went off, police said. Also Friday, the U.S. military announced that American-led coalition forces captured a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq in the Baquba area. The military didn't identify the man who was captured Monday, two days after another senior member of the network -- Mansur Sulayman Mansur Khalif, also known as Sheikh Mansur -- was killed in a coalition airstrike. The suspect, detained with three other suspected terrorists, reportedly is "a senior al Qaeda cell leader throughout central Iraq, north of Baghdad," a military statement said. "He is known to be involved in facilitating foreign terrorists throughout central Iraq, and is suspected of having ties to previous attacks on coalition and Iraqi forces." The military said the raid also turned up an AK-47 and other ammunition that coalition forces destroyed on-site. Women and children at the sites returned safely to their homes after forces determined the area was secured, the statement said. The Pentagon on Thursday released video of the June 16 airstrike that killed Sheikh Mansur. Described as one of al Qaeda in Iraq's top five operatives, he was believed to have been attempting to reorganize the group's operations after al-Zarqawi's death. Deaths of 4 U.S. troops reported Two U.S. Marines were killed as a result of enemy action in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. One was killed Wednesday, and the other died Thursday. Also, two U.S. soldiers died Wednesday -- one in a roadside bomb attack south of Baghdad and the other from a noncombat incident -- according to the military. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, 2,506 U.S. military personnel have died in the Iraq war. Seven military civilian employees also have been killed. Other developments * A car bomb detonated Friday near a market and gas station in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing at least two people and injuring 18 others, according to police and hospital officials. Violence in the largely Shiite city hasn't ebbed since Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared a monthlong state of emergency there May 31. * Iraqi officials have lifted Baghdad's curfew for four hours Friday evening, said a senior official with the Iraqi prime minister's office. Earlier, the government had imposed a vehicle and pedestrian ban from midday Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday in response to a gunbattle on Baghdad's Haifa Street. But authorities reassessed the ban and decided to lift it from 5 to 9 p.m. to allow people to run errands and do other business. * U.S. Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the commanding general in Iraq will recommend when to cut U.S. troop levels, in consultation with that nation's new government and other officials. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference in Washington, Rumsfeld quashed earlier indications from military sources that Gen. George Casey was considering a gradual force reduction in Iraq. ( <http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/22/iraq.main/index.html> Full story) * Relatives of Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker, captured during an insurgent attack last week, said the U.S. military confirmed to them Thursday that the brutalized bodies found this week were those of the missing soldiers, The Associated Press reported. ( <http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/22/missing.soldiers.bodies.ap/index.html> Full story) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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