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Feb 20, 1:47 PM ET
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi security forces have killed or captured three insurgents producing websites showing hostages being tortured, officials said, as Indonesia stepped up efforts to try to free two of its journalists kidnapped in Iraq.
Time magazine meanwhile reported that rebel leaders had held secret talks with US officials seeking to end the deadly insurgency in which thousands of people have died since the US-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein nearly two years ago.
Six more Iraqis were killed in separate incidents, police and the US military said on Sunday, after some 70 others died during the two-day Shiite Ashura religious festival which ended on Saturday.
The government said security forces had "killed the terrorist Adel Mujtaba, known as Abu Rim, who disseminated propaganda for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist network".
Mujtaba was the third Zarqawi propaganda chief to be killed or detained after the first and second in command, Abu Sufiyan and Husam Abdullah Muhsin al-Dulaymi, were respectively killed and detained, a statement said, without providing further details on the latter two...
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