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Iraq
Al-Qaida threatens to revenge al-Qaem operations
2005-11-09
Al-Qaida organization in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi threatened to launch a campaign of "revenge" in west Iraq after the end of the grace period he gave to the American and Iraqi forces to stop the so-called "iron curtain" campaign they launched since Saturday on the border with Syria.
Oh, darn.
For the fourth running day, the American attacks continue in collaboration with several groups of the Iraqi forces against al-Qaem area in al-Anbar governorate. The American army announced on Tuesday that its forces killed five gunmen and detained ten when they broke into a house used by members of al-Qaida organization near Ramadi city. Earlier the American army said it killed 36 gunmen and detained 200 since the beginning of the operation.

On the other hand, the American statement stressed that the gunmen use what it described as sensitive installations to hide in and that the marines retaliate fire opened from these buildings. Witnesses confirm that the violent American bombardment target mosques and civilian houses in al-Huseibah town. News coming from al-Huseibah state that many of its people had evacuated it. Its chieftains appealed the UN and the Arab League to interfere immediately in order to halt military operations in it so as to be able to bury their dead.

Worthy mentioning that the American army announced the killing of 6 of its soldiers, one of them during the current operations in al-Qaem while other four were killed in a booby trapped car explosion in south Baghdad. The 6th was killed in a bomb explosion near Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

In other confrontations, sources in the Iraqi police and army announced the killing of 11 Iraqis most of them are from the army and police forces including three army officers and other 13 were injured in attacks in Iraq. One source in the Iraqi police said that the chairman of the criminal investigation unity in Basra colonel Mahmoud Qasem was killed with his two body guards and other four were injured when one booby trapped car targeted their vehicle went off in Abu al-Khaseib area south of the city.
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#2  Al-Fuck-U
Posted by: Captain America   2005-11-09 13:07  

#1  "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi threatened to launch a campaign of "revenge" in west Iraq after the end of the grace period he gave to the American and Iraqi forces to stop the so-called "iron curtain" campaign ..."

Hmmmmm, so we start calling operations grace periods... I like that!
Posted by: RG   2005-11-09 12:33  

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