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2 gunmen detained in Mosul

September 24, 2008 - 10:16:02

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces arrested two gunmen on Wednesday in eastern Mosul, the official spokesman for the Ninewa operations command said.
“A force from the 3rd brigade of the Iraqi army arrested two gunmen in al-Tahrir region in eastern Mosul,” Brigadier Khaled Abdul Sattar told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The operation came after the gunmen through a hand grenade on an Iraqi army checkpoint in al-Muharibien neighborhood in eastern Mosul, but the explosion caused no casualties among the forces,” he explained,
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 (KRG).
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.

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