Last Update: Tuesday, January 18, 2005. 12:00pm (AEDT)
Violence continues ahead of Iraq poll
Pre-election violence in Iraq is showing no signs of abating with the deaths today of two American soldiers following on from yesterday's killing of 22 Iraqi policemen and soldiers.
A Catholic archbishop who leads the Syrian community in the city of Mosul has also been kidnapped.
A statement from the Vatican denounced the abduction of the archbishop, Basil George Casmusa, as a terrorist act.
It gave no details of how the kidnapping happened.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1283918.htm---------
I find no mention of the 2 KIA at
http://icasualties.org/oif or at
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases.edit - the two seem to be from the car bomb incident in Ramadi mentioned at icasualties today.