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From Saca's link and other sources:

In a separate operation on Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, the US military said, 70 suspected insurgents were arrested by Iraqi forces.

Also in the capital, witnesses said shopkeepers fought a gun battle with insurgents on Tuesday, killing three of them. Correspondents say the incident is the first time private citizens are known to have retaliated successfully against insurgents.

Baghdad, 22 March 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Police say an Iraqi police antiterror unit shot dead 17 suspected insurgents and arrested 13 others in a clash near the Grand Mosque of the northern town of Mosul today.

Ten terrorists captured by Iraqi forces have confessed to planning and executing the recent attack on the Ministry of Agriculture, in which a dump truck full of explosives detonated near the building, according to a Multi-National Forces report. The terrorists also confessed to an attack on a bus that killed an Iraqi infantry officer, a Coalition officer and his interpreter, and another attack on a traffic circle in Al-Nasour that targeted an Iraqi officer and members of the security advisers office, the report said. Members of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Public Order Battalion, led by Iraqi Colonel Basim, arrested the men after raiding a house March 18. They confiscated two vehicles in the process of being turned into car bombs and a cache of weapons, including two grenades, four rockets and launchers, several small arms, detonation cord, remote-controlled devices and other items used to make bombs. They also discovered $8,480 in U.S. currency, 375,000 Iraqi dinars, five blank Iraqi passports, forged Iraqi national identification cards, cell phones and cameras. No injuries were reported as a result of the operation.

American Forces Press Service, March 21, 2005 – Six insurgents were killed March 20 and several more were arrested earlier this week after a spate of attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces, military officials in Baghdad reported. The military today said three insurgents were killed after Iraqi forces defended against enemy forces who ambushed a vehicle convoy near Habaniyah. One of the attackers was wounded. Four Iraqi soldiers injured in the ambush were treated and released at a local hospital. And during separate fighting today near Baqubah, Iraqi soldiers killed three more insurgents after what is believed to have been a coordinated attack against an Iraqi army headquarters station.

Task Force Liberty Soldiers rescued a hostage and detained two Iraqi men during a raid near Bayji about 11 p.m., March 16. Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team conducted the raid to rescue the kidnap victim.

With the graduation of nearly 1,500 soldiers at the Kirkush Military Training Base, March 20, all 27 battalions of nine brigades in the new Iraqi Army are now operational.

The "insurgents" have had their victories, though:

In Baghdad on Wednesday, a rocket or mortar hit a school and exploded, killing an 11-year-old girl and injuring at least one other child.

23 March 2005 (RFE/RL) -- A bomb planted outside a primary school in the Ali Salih area of the Al-Iskan neighborhood of Baghdad detonated on 23 March, killing two people and wounding several others, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reported. RFI's Baghdad correspondent Jumana al-Ubaidi was interviewing police that had arrived on the scene to defuse the bomb when the device exploded. Police had closed off the neighborhood at around 1 p.m. after residents discovered the bomb in the street outside the school. As al-Ubaidi asked Police First Lieutenant Ali about the unfolding incident, the bomb detonated, killing one police officer, a sapper, and wounding three others. An unidentified civilian on the scene said that the sapper killed in the attack had tried to defuse the bomb, but apparently failed. On his second attempt, the bomb detonated.

By the way, the unit responsible for defeating that "most ambitious assault against the American military since the Jan. 30 elections" was the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit.