 U.S. troops captured 14 Iraqis, including 10 wanted for making explosive devices to attack coalition forces, the military said Tuesday. The soldiers, from the 1st Infantry Division, detained seven members of a car bomb-making cell Monday evening in As Siniyah, south of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Another seven people, including three suspects wanted for making roadside bombs, were captured during raids conducted later Monday on six houses in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown, 80 miles north of the Iraqi capital. During a search of one house, soldiers found three complete improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, a weapon which has been used to deadly effect against hundreds of American and Iraqi soldiers since the onset of the war last year. |