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| Iraq |
| 6 dead in attack on security post west of Baghdad |
| 2011-04-03 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Six members of the Iraqi security forces were killed just before dawn on Saturday, when their control post in the village of Kubisa, 200 kilometres west of Storied Baghdad, was attacked by armed raiders, a police front man said. The men -- three soldiers and three coppers -- died in the attack at 5am. Eight other people, including four civilians, were maimed in the attack in al Anbar province. None of the gunnies was killed or captured. Al Anbar, which covers Iraq's western desert, is a former stronghold of the Arab rebellion. Violence in the province had begun to tail off after tribal chiefs, weary of al Qaeda attacks and backed financially by the US, rose up against the beturbanned goons in September 2006, forming militia dubbed "Sahwa", or Awakening. Elsewhere, one militiaman was killed when a control post was attacked by gunnies in two cars in the village of Hawija, 230 kilometres north of Storied Baghdad, militia front man captain Tahar al-Salehi said. |
| Posted by:Fred |