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| Iraq Violence Kills 20 people |
| 2013-10-11 |
| [An Nahar] Violence in Iraq killed 20 people on Thursday, among them four anti-al-Qaeda gunnies rubbed out by gunnies and eight gunnies killed by security forces, officials said. In Samarra, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , gunnies killed two Sahwa anti-al-Qaeda gunnies in an attack on a checkpoint, while two more died in a similar attack near Baquba, also north of the capital. The Sahwa, who joined forces with the United States from late 2006 and helped bring about a sharp reduction in violence in Iraq, are frequently targeted by Sunni bully boys, who consider them to be traitors. Northeast of Baquba, a roadside kaboom killed two police and maimed a third when it went kaboom!near their patrol in the town of Muqdadiyah, which has been hit by frequent bombings and shootings this year. In Storied Baghdad itself, bombings killed three people and maimed 11, while the owner of a tire shop was bumped off. Police also found the corpse of a man with signs of torture and gunshot wounds. He was believed to have been killed on Thursday. In the northern province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... gunnies shot one person dead, while security forces killed eight gunnies in a multi-province operation that army Staff Lieutenant General Abdulamir al-Zaidi said resulted in the arrest of more than 60 people and the seizure of weapons. Iraqi security forces have carried out wide-ranging operations targeting gunnies for more than two months, but have yet to curb the surge in violence plaguing the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |