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2006-03-21 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2006-03-21 07:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 seeing as it was a provincial lock up, I doubt they freed anyone important. But I agree, its not good.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-03-21 09:34|| 2006-03-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like it's in the sticks. An unpacified area maybe. Needed a little someting to keep the headlines negative.

Posted by 6 2006-03-21 09:35|| 2006-03-21 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Its not a provincial capital, IIUC, but its big enough to have a lockup, courthouse etc. Bigger than a village.

In any case insurgents operating in a group this big, and pulling off a raid is NOT good. Sure its the sticks - a lot of the Sunni triangle is "the sticks".

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-03-21 09:39|| 2006-03-21 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 A surprisingly reasonable and informative report from al Reuters.

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"The governor of Diyala province, which has a volatile ethnic and sectarian mix and has seen many al Qaeda attacks in recent months, had the police commander and other officers arrested.

"He suspected them of complicity in the dawn raid, which police said involved about 100 fighters, probably from al Qaeda.

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"Police said investigations were being hampered because the gunmen seized radio equipment, making the police radio network insecure and unusable.

"The area has seen several such large-scale assaults on police and army posts, apparently by al Qaeda-linked insurgents defying Iraq's new U.S.-trained security forces.

"Iraqi intelligence officials have said they believe the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may be now be in Diyala.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-03-21 18:35|| 2006-03-21 18:35|| Front Page Top

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