2 bodies found, 2 wanted men arrested in Mosul

NINEWA, Sept. 19 (Iraqi News) – A police force found two unidentified bodies while Iraqi army troops captured two wanted men in separate incidents west of Mosul on Friday, a spokesman for the Ninewa Operations Command (NOC) said. “The security forces found two unknown bodies in al-Kifah neighborhood in Talafar district, (60 km) west of Mosul,” Brig. Khaled Abdelsattar told IraqiNews.com – Voices of Iraq – (Iraqi News). “Near the scene, policemen found a machine-gun, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, two hand-grenades and 300 rounds of light fire,” he said. Meanwhile, Abdelsattar added, a force from the Iraqi army’s 3 rd Division captured on Friday two wanted men in the district of Sinjar, (120 km) west of Mosul, not giving more details. 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 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. AmR (S) 1