BBC NEWS | Middle East | US army holds 32 in Iraqi raids

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US army holds 32 in Iraqi raids: "The US military in Iraq says it has detained 32 suspected militants in a series of overnight raids.

Some 16 were seized in Sadr City in Baghdad, a stronghold of Shia militias where US and Iraqi troops have been searching for five abducted Britons.

In north-western Iraq, at least nine people died in a suicide truck bomb attack on a police post in Rabia.

The new spokesman for the US military in Iraq has defended the recent 'surge' in troops aimed at tightening security.

The US military said the men detained overnight were suspected members of a network involved in bringing sophisticated bomb components into Iraq from Iran." Read complete post here.