-- BAGHDAD -- U.S. aircraft killed more than 20 al-Qaida fighters who opened fire on an American air patrol northwest of Baghdad, the military reported on Sunday.**********
"The aircraft observed about 25 al-Qaida personnel carrying AK-47 assault rifles, with one of the men brandishing an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade), and walking through an area of local shops and into a palm grove.
Four vehicles were destroyed and no Iraqi civilians or U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded, the military said.
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Today the site near Dayr az-Zawr lies in ruins after it was pounded by Israeli F15Is on September 6. Before the Israelis issued the order to strike, the commandos had secretly seized samples of nuclear material and taken them back into Israel for examination by scientists, the sources say.
A laboratory confirmed that the unspecified material was North Korean in origin.
America approved an attack.
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