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| Iraq attacks kill 5, including anti-Qaeda leader's son |
| 2009-07-19 |
| Five people were killed, including the son of a senior Sunni Arab militiaman, in two attacks on Saturday in a town outside Fallujah, west of Baghdad, a police officer said. A roadside bomb in Al Karma, 15 kilometres east of Fallujah, killed three people and wounded six, police Colonel Hafiz Muklif said. Those killed include the son of Naeem Saleh al Halbusi, the deputy chief of a Sunni militia opposed to Al Qaeda, and two bodyguards, Muklif said. Halbusi was injured in the attack. Sunni militias, made up of local tribes and former insurgents and known as the 'Sahwa' or 'Awakening' -- who have been siding with the American military since 2006 -- played a crucial role in ousting the Al Qaeda from their former strongholds. A second roadside bomb in the town killed two people and wounded two, the police officer said. The security situation in Fallujah -- once a major bastion of the Sunni insurgency -- has improved dramatically since the launch of the Sahwa movement. But Saturday's attacks follow a bombing a day earlier at the Fallujah home of a police lieutenant colonel and ex-Sahwa leader in which his two sons were killed and six people were wounded. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Why are we surprised? Dinner-jacket was re-elected. He's sworn to destroy Israel and any other "democratic" country. Trace back the orders and you'll find them coming from the Revolutionary Guards. Dinner-jacket needs to feel the wrath of a 20-ship ARCLIGHT strike on his residence, and soon. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-07-19 14:52 |
| #2 Pottery house rules dimit! They broke it. They buy it! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-19 06:45 |
| #1 The orcs continue their scorched earth policy. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2009-07-19 02:34 |