KUWAIT CITY – The commander of Canada’s combat mission in Iraq says enemy fighters were very likely killed in Tuesday’s airstrike north of Baghdad. Col. Dan Constable says a Canadian laser-guided bomb hit an artillery position that had been shelling Iraqi forces involved in a localized offensive near the northern city of Bayji. Constable says he’s confident there were no civilian casualties, because extremists were the only ones operating in the area – although he offered no estimates of how many of them were killed. He insists the air campaign is showing signs of success and that the Islamic...
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