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Violence Kills 29 as Iraqi Forces Hit Militants
[An Nahar] Violence in Iraq killed 29 people Saturday, most of them snuffies who died in a security forces assault that pushed them out of an area west of Storied Baghdad, officials said.Anti-government fighters have held shifting parts of Anbar lovely provincial capital Ramadi and all of the city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... both west of Storied Baghdad, for more than three months, with security forces still struggling to bring parts of the province back under government control. Early on Saturday, security forces assaulted the Al-Hamira area south of Ramadi, retaking it from bully boys, an army colonel and a police lieutenant colonel said. The fighting killed 21 snuffies and two soldiers, the officers said. The crisis in the desert province of Anbar erupted in late December when security forces dismantled Iraq's main Sunni Arab anti-government protest camp just outside Ramadi. Militants subsequently seized parts of Ramadi and all of Fallujah, the first time anti-government forces have exercised such open control in major cities since the peak of the deadly violence that followed the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. In Mishahada, north of Storied Baghdad, a jacket wallah targeted an army base on Saturday, killing at least four soldiers and wounding six, and bombings in the capital itself killed at least two people. Posted by: Fred 2014-04-20 |
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