Car bomb kills 3 children, 2 individuals in Ninewa

NINEWA/IraqiNews.com: About five civilians were killed and 12 other wounded by a car bomb in Ninewa, a security source said. “A car bomb targeting A U.S. army patrol in Islah Ziraei district, west Mosul, leaving five civilians killed and twelve others wounded,” a Ninewa security source told IraqiNews.com. “Three of the killed were children coincided to be near the accident area,” the source added. Mosul, the provincial capital of Ninewa, 400 km north Baghdad, is viewed by U.S. and Iraqi authorities as one of the last remaining al-Qaida strongholds in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a two-phase military crackdown in the northern city in May. Ninewa officials said the gains from these operations, however, have disintegrated as militant groups re-entered the city there due to an insufficient number of Iraqi troops to maintain security following operations in May. AM(S) 2