Iraqi forces lift curfew in Mosul after rounding up 62 suspects

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities lifted a partial curfew in the country's third-largest city Sunday after repulsing a series of attacks and rounding up dozens of suspects.\nTen people were killed elsewhere in the country in ongoing sectarian and political violence, police said, while several U.S. Marines were injured in a suicide bomb attack.\nHeavy fighting erupted in Mosul Friday between security forces and insurgents, killing a police colonel and raising concern that insurgents were regrouping there.\nMosul, a predominantly Sunni city 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, was virtually overrun by insurgents in a November 2004 onslaught during which the city's entire 5,500-member police force fled their posts.\nThis time, the police stood their ground, boosting confidence that Iraqi forces can contain any rise in violence.\nA Defense Ministry statement said 62 arrests had been made in northern Iraq since Saturday. The curfew had been imposed in the eastern part of Mosul, where much of Friday's fighting took place, but was lifted after order was restored, police chief Maj. Gen. Wathiq al-Hamdani said.\nFriday's attack, which indicated a rearming of the militants, occurred as the U.S. Army's 172nd Brigade of 3,700 troops was moving out of Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, to reinforce U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad.\nA new Stryker force from the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division has replaced the force sent to Baghdad.\nPolice estimated that 20 militants were killed in the Friday fighting. Only four bodies have been found. The fighting began after a car bomb killed a police colonel and three other policemen.\nAnother 10 suspected insurgents were arrested in other parts of the country, the statement said\nGunmen in Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, ambushed a convoy of Iraqi trucks, killing two drivers and setting their trucks on fire, said police Capt. Laith Mohammed said. A sniper shot dead a government security guard in southern Baghdad.\nPolice found the bodies of five men in Baghdad and one in the southeastern city of Amarah. All had been shot, police said.\nA U.S. military statement said coalition forces killed one man during a raid north of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad.\nAlso Sunday, police said a suicide bomber in a truck rammed into a house with U.S. soldiers inside in Fallujah, 45 miles west of Baghdad in Anbar province. A U.S. statement said "several Marines ... were injured and several vehicles damaged" when a vehicle exploded in a suicide attack in Anbar province. It did not elaborate.