3 suspects nabbed in Mosul

Mosul-Arresting NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Three suspected gunmen were arrested on Thursday by policemen in western Mosul, the official spokesman for the Ninewa operations command said. “A force from the emergency police arrested three suspected gunmen after finding a weapons cache inside a gas store in al-Mushahada region in western Mosul,” Brig. Khaled Abdul Sattar told IraqiNews.com. “The detainees are now under investigation,” he noted. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The original city of Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient biblical city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides. Despite having an amount of Kurdish population, it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). There are different communities in Mosul like Christians, Shiites and Kurds along with a Sunni majority. The fabric Muslin, long manufactured here, is named for this city. Another historically important product of the area is Mosul marble. The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum. SH (S)/SR 1