Gunman killed, 14 arrested in Baghdad

Iraq-Kurdistan BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi security forces killed one gunman, arrested 14 others, and defused 232 bombs in separate areas of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, the official spokesman for the Baghdad operations command said. “Iraqi forces found also amounts of weapons and ammunitions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad,” General Qassem Atta told IraqiNews.com. “A total of 15 displaced families have returned to their houses,” he added. “Four Iraqi security elements were wounded during the operations,” Atta noted. Since February 2007, Iraqi security forces have launched a large scale operation dubbed as Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) to crack down on gunmen and to assert the rule of law in Baghdad and its suburbs. SH (P)/SR 1