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Monday, 6 May 2008 | 12:30 PM ET
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forces continued to advance into Tikrit, making rapid gains in the first major military operation since U.S. troops left the country.
Iraqi troops taking part in the operation, backed by air cover, have cut off a key road that leads to Tikrit and are moving toward a mosque that was a symbolic landmark in Saddam Hussein's rule.
The head of the Mosul operations command, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yarallah, said the offensive, supported by elite U.S.-trained troops, is set to continue into the coming week.
"In the coming days, we will reach the Tigris River in Tikrit and the city center," he said, referring to the town west of Baghdad where Saddam was captured.
The British-trained Counter-Terrorism Unit that is leading the ground assault said its troops are also closing in on two more areas where Saddam was thought to have been hiding.
"So far, there are no reports of resistance and we are making good progress," Lt. Col. Alan Smith, the British commander, told The Associated Press.
At least six people were killed and 15 wounded in fresh mortar and gunfire in Tikrit, security sources and a hospital official said.
There have been claims by tribal leaders and residents that the bodies of former regime supporters have been dumped in the Tigris River. In the city of Samarra, west of Baghdad, where gunmen kidnapped and killed a group of Shiite pilgrims in March, relatives said some bodies were returned to the families.
In other violence across Iraq, four people were killed and five wounded when gunmen fired on a convoy of U.S. Marines, Iraqi police and a bomb-disposal unit in the town of Balad, in Salahuddin province.
"It was an ambush. They were firing at a U.S. unit," said Lt
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