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Report Says Dozens Of Iraqi Policemen Abducted

17 November 2004 -- Attackers have reportedly kidnapped dozens of Iraqi policemen returning from training in Jordan.

A policeman who says he escaped from the ambush said a group of around 20 armed men attacked a hotel occupied by the policemen near the Jordanian border. At least 31 policemen -- who were not armed -- were taken away.

The authenticity of the report could not be immediately confirmed.

In the northern town of Baiji today, at least five Iraqis were killed when a bomb exploded close to a U.S. patrol.

The city of Mosul, also in the north, was relatively quiet today after days of clashes between U.S. and Iraqi forces and insurgents.

In Al-Fallujah, U.S. and Iraqi forces were still hunting for insurgents after nine days of fighting that the U.S. military says has left some 1,600 insurgents dead.

(AP/AFP)

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