14 Al Qaeda Taken Down In Fallujah
Fallujah, the old days
Al Qaeda keeps trying to re-infest Fallujah, without any demonstrable success. Over the last month or so, the military has reported a variety of Al Qaeda kills and captures in and around the city. An if you missed the story last week, the city has become so pacified that the Iraqi Army recently handed security over to the local cops. As you read this story, keep in mind that the cops are Sunnis, like Al Qaeda. The only reason Al Qaeda was able to turn Fallujah into their capital in the first place, was because the sympathetic locals let them. The locals arent’ sympathetic any more. Al Qaedas’ days of using Fallujah as a safe haven are long over.
Anbar, Sept 17, (VOI) – Fourteen people were arrested in Anbar’s Falluja city for suspected ties to al-Qaeda organization, a local police source said on Monday.
“During a raid that lasted for one and a half hours, Falluja police forces arrested 14 individuals suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda organization on Monday afternoon,” an officer from Falluja police told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“The raid, which started at 04:00 p.m. until 05:30 p.m., covered the southern neighborhoods of al-Shuhadaa and al-Jubail without any clashes with armed groups,” the officer noted.
The raid was staged in light of information from local residents about the self-styled al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq.
Falluja, a onetime major stronghold of al-Qaeda-led militants, is currently enjoying relative stability that helped boost the reconstruction of schools, hospitals, and the local electricity grid.
Falluja, one of the main cities of the Sunni Anbar province, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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September 18th, 2007 at 4:39 amHehe, I’m goin’ off to YT to c/p this post into the ISI vid comments.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am