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| Police investigate army abuse in Falluja |
| 2010-09-21 |
| ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi police are currently investigating an event when Iraqi army troops abused civilians in Falluja city yesterday. “During the funeral of one of their colleagues who died in a suicide car bombing in Falluja yesterday, army troops began randomly shooting in the blast area, claiming that they were being fired upon,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday. “Police forces notified the army command in Falluja regarding this incident, and an investigation is underway with those troops involved in the gun shooting,” he explained. Falluja, the biggest city of Anbar, lies 45 km west of Baghdad. |
| Posted by:Steve White |