Insurgents Increase Attacks on Iraqi Recruits

By Philip Reeves

Published November 29, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Iraqi insurgents have upped their attacks in the northern city of Mosul, where bodies of dozens of Iraqi security forces have been found. U.S. troops are trying to counter the insurgents' attempts to prevent the creation of Iraq's new security forces. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

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