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| Three anti-al-Qaeda militants, Sunni cleric killed in mindless Iraq violence |
| 2010-11-11 |
| (Xinhua) -- Three Iraqi cut-thoats, known as Awakening Council group members and a Sunni holy man were killed in attacks in south and west of Storied Baghdad on Wednesday, local police said. Three Awakening Council group members were killed and three others maimed when a homemade bomb detonated while they were guarding a gathering of local tribes in the town of Iskandariya ... named after Alexander the Great, today it's a mostly Sunni-inhabited slum ... some 60 km south of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua. The Awakening Council, or al-Sahwa in Arabic, consists of some powerful anti-U.S. Sunni bad boy groups, which turned their rifles against the al-Qaeda network after the latter terrorized both Shiite and Sunni Mohammedan communities. "Eventually," he explained patiently, "the Americans will leave. Eventually the turbans won't." "Duh, hey!" the Arab responded. "Dat's no fair!" Also in the day, gunnies rubbed out Jassim al-Essawi, the holy man of a Sunni mosque in the town of Garma, near the city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity... some 50 km west of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua. Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Soddy Arabia. The vast desert area has been relatively calm for more than three years after Sunni tribes and anti-U.S. bad boy groups turned to cooperate with the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces against al-Qaeda network in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Fred |