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Eight Iraq Security Forces Members Killed in Attacks
[AnNahar] Attacks killed eight Iraqi security forces members on Thursday, while four jacket wallahs were rubbed out attempting to target police, officials said.

In the deadliest attack, gunnies killed four soldiers and maimed three as they traveled to join their unit near Tikrit, north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Gunmen also killed a prison guard in the northern province of Nineveh, while a bombing killed a police officer.

Four suicide bombers attempted to infiltrate federal police headquarters in djinn-infested Mosul, the capital of Nineveh, but were killed by security forces.

And gunnies killed an anti-al-Qaeda Sahwa militiaman along with his brother in Samarra, while two non-combatants were killed and five maimed in a bombing near Baquba.

Sunni bully boyz see the Sahwa militiaman, who sided with U.S. forces against hard boyz from late 2006 and helped to turn the tide of the war, as traitors, and often target them.

Iraqi police and soldiers are also frequently targeted in attacks by bully boyz opposed to the Iraqi government.

Iraq has been hit by a deadly surge of violence since the beginning of the year, which experts say has been driven by widespread discontent among Iraqi Sunnis that the government has failed to address.

July was the deadliest month for Iraq in five years, according to figures compiled by the U.N. and the Iraqi government.
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-08-02
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