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| Militants Attack Iraq Anti-Qaida Leader, Kill Four |
| 2014-03-17 |
| [An Nahar] Heavily-armed forces of Evil attacked the home of an anti-Qaeda militiaman north of Storied Baghdad Sunday, killing and decapitating his wife and two sons and killing another person in a brutal pre-dawn assault. The militia leader, Abu Salim, was not in the house at the time of the attack, which involved more than a dozen vehicles and fighters armed with heavy machine guns and other weapons and also left two of his young sons maimed. Fighters attacked the militia leader's house in Jilam, a suburb of the predominantly Sunni city of Samarra, at around midnight on Saturday, and killed Abu Salim's wife, two sons and another woman, a police colonel and another officer said. They then decapitated his wife and two sons, and set off explosives around the house, injuring two other sons, aged four and five. Policemen at a nearby checkpoint attempted to repel the assault, the officers said, but were unsuccessful and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace when they ran out of ammunition and reinforcements that they had radioed for failed to arrive. Abu Salim is the leader in Jilam of the Sahwa, or Awakening, a collection of mostly-Sunni tribal militias that from late-2006 onwards sided with U.S. forces against their co-religionists in al-Qaeda, helping turn the tide of Iraq's insurgency. But as a result, they are regarded by Sunni forces of Evil as traitors, and are regularly targeted in attacks. In the Storied Baghdad area on Sunday, meanwhile, a bombing and two shootings killed three people, security and medical officials said. The latest bloodshed came a day after five boom-mobiles were set off in commercial areas of the Iraqi capital, killing 15 people and wounding more than 50 others. No group immediately grabbed credit for the bloodshed, but Sunni myrmidons, including those linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... jihadist group, are often blamed for carrying out coordinated mass-casualty bombings. Iraq is grappling with its worst prolonged period of violence since it emerged from a bloody sectarian war that left tens of thousands dead in 2006-07. |
| Posted by:Fred |