US search for 'Chemical Ali' leaves four Iraqis dead

The search started Sunday and came to a close yesterday morning when US armored vehicles withdrew from Dhuluiya, the sources said, adding that two residents had been killed by US fire, one died of a brain hemorrhage after he was beaten up, and a fourth of a heart attack after being interrogated by the army.

The six-day raid was part of a much larger army campaign, dubbed Operation "Peninsula Strike," which aims to crush pockets of Iraqi resistance in the Baqubah-Balad area, northeast of the Iraqi capital.

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