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| 4 gunmen killed in failed attack in Salah el-Din |
| 2008-06-13 |
| (VOI) - Four gunmen were killed in a failed attack on a Sahwa (Awakening) fighters' center in Salah al-Din province, said a police source on Thursday. "Sahwa fighters and police forces on Wednesday night foiled an attack by gunmen on the Sahwa center in al-Ishaqi region in al-Kasara village in north of Baghdad," the source, who asked to remain unnamed, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "Four gunmen, including two Egyptians, were killed in the attack," he added. "All of them were wearing explosive belts," he noted. The U.S. army said in a statement that "sons of Iraq members thwarted an enemy attack in the Salah al-Din Province that resulted in the killing of four al-Qaeda in Iraq members June 11." "An SOI element killed four AQI members, three of whom were wearing suicide vests, after being attacked while responding to a report of civilians being attacked in their homes," the statement added. |
| Posted by:Fred |