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| Iraq |
| Iraq's Maliki Insists Security Campaign to Carry On |
| 2013-08-15 |
| [An Nahar] Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed Wednesday that security forces will keep up a campaign of mass arrests and targeting of bad boy camps to counter Iraq's worst outbreak of violence since 2008. He said more than 800 alleged forces of Evil tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! '>were tossed into the calaboose and dozens of others killed in multiple operations, the latest announcement by authorities of efforts to tackle spiraling violence that has left more than 3,400 dead since the start of 2013. "The operation that we started in chasing terrorists, and those who stand behind them, will continue until we protect our people," the premier said in remarks broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? He said security forces had destroyed bad boy infrastructure used to make boom-mobiles and seized a large amount of weaponry and explosive materiel. The premier did not, however, specify when the arrests were made, where the operations took place, or who had carried them out. Security forces have for weeks been carrying out wide-ranging operations in the Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... area and north and west of the capital after brazen July jailbreaks claimed by an al-Qaeda front group. Hundreds of inmates were freed, among them some said to be senior bad boys. |
| Posted by:Fred |