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| Iraq |
| Four militiamen killed near Baghdad |
| 2010-10-12 |
| [Iran Press TV] Disguised gunnies have attacked a town south of Storied Baghdad and killed four members of an anti-al-Qaeda local militia in an execution-style fashion. Gunmen in military uniforms stormed the town of Yusufiyah before dawn on Monday, forced six men out of their homes and shot them, AFP quoted an Iraqi interior ministry official as saying. Four of the men lost their lives but two survived with injuries, he further explained. Yusufiyah, 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, is located in a former bastion of al-Qaeda militancy. The area was cleared after Sunni rustics joined security forces in 2008 in a bid to uproot the snuffys. According to another Iraqi interior ministry official, all the victims were members of the Sahwa [Awakening] militia, whose members have been targeted by snuffys' acts of retaliation. On Monday, a roadside kaboom also targeted a police convoy carrying the head of the interior ministry's criminal evidence department in eastern Baghdad. The major general survived the attack unharmed, while his driver was killed in the incident and his bodyguard and a passerby were maimed. |
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