2 wanted men detained, car bomb defused in Mosul

Ninewa-Car NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi security forces on Tuesday arrested two wanted men and defused a car bomb in separate incidents in Mosul, the official spokesman for the Ninewa operations command said. “Police arrested a wanted man in al-Matahen neighborhood in southern Mosul,” Brigadier Khaled Abdul Sattar told Aswat a-Iraq, noting that he is a member of al-Qaeda’s Islamic state in Iraq. “Another police force arrested a wanted man in al-Rashidiya region in northern Mosul,: Abdul Sattar added. “Anti-bomb squad managed to defuse a car bomb in Talkief district in north of Mosul without casualties,” he continued. “The forces also found a weapons depot in al-Beaaj district in west of Mosul,” he said, without 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 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