Fierce Battle As Al Qaeda Storms Diyala Town - Iran Terrorist Caught
BAGHDAD (AP) - Dozens of suspected al-Qaida militants raided a Shiite village north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 13 people and torching homes, police said.
The attack on the predominantly Shiite village of Dwelah, about 45 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province, began at about 6:30 a.m., a police officer said. The village was bombarded with mortar rounds, then 50 to 60 armed militants streamed in and opened fire, forcing families to flee.
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They burned homes and killed at least 13 villagers, including three children and two women, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information about the attack. Fourteen villagers were wounded.
The villagers apparently also fought back, and three gunmen were killed in the attack in one of Iraq’s most violent regions, police said.
The U.S. military has courted both Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders in Diyala, hoping to drive out al-Qaida after a similar effort saw some success in Iraq’s westernmost province, Anbar, where Sunni tribes rose up against the organization’s brutal tactics and austere version of Islam.
In the same area in the town of Duluiyah, a suicide attacker cornered in his home by local volunteers in the U.S.-backed program blew himself up on Friday, killing one of the fighters and wounding two, a police officer said.
And just a few miles north of that attack, insurgents killed another of the local guards, members of a so-called Awakening Council, another security official said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release details of the attack.
About 30 miles south of the capital, militants stormed a Sunni village just outside Iskandariyah, killing three of the Awakening members and abducting five on Friday, including the village’s tribal chief, according to Ahmed al-Azawi, spokesman for the Awakening Council and an Iskandariyah police officer.
Beginning with a Sunni rebellion against al-Qaida in Iraq in the former insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, the movement of local volunteers is considered a success in more than four years of war. It now includes some 60,000 Iraqis nationwide, most of them Sunni Arabs, according to senior U.S. military officers.
Separately, police in southern Iraq captured a suspect believed responsible for supplying and coordinating roadside bomb attacks against American and Iraqi troops, the U.S. military said.
The American statement said the suspect, detained Friday in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, had traveled repeatedly to Iran and was found with Iranian weapons and munitions, including three new Iranian-made rockets and boosters, a launcher and AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition.
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“The U.S. military has courted both Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders in Diyala, hoping to drive out al-Qaida after a similar effort saw some success in Iraq’s westernmost province, Anbar, where Sunni tribes rose up against the organization’s brutal tactics and austere version of Islam.”
The words “some success” used to describe spectaclar success. Some reporting AP - Always Politicizing.
December 1st, 2007 at 4:32 amI guess “some success” is akin to “some news” from the MSM on Iraq? While we and our Iraqi counterparts achieve great things on the ground in theatre…all the MSM can do is report “some news” from Iraq. That’s why I don’t read “some” papers or listen to “some” news outlets. I’m sick of the “some news” poliically motivated jive.
One would think the whole LLMSM is Islamofacist, since they are so good at kitma on a daily basis.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:02 amIn a way it’s good that AQ is still making a bit of a fight of it; it will help defuse the “Well, if we’ve won, let’s pull all the troops now!” BS which is starting to show up. This kind of war is no place for those with ADHD and the attention span of a gnat.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:41 am“The American statement said the suspect, detained Friday in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, had traveled repeatedly to Iran and was found with Iranian weapons and munitions, including three new Iranian-made rockets and boosters, a launcher and AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition.”
I am sure this gentleman was only there to guard the new baby milk factories that the legitimate Iranian businessmen are there to help facilitate. NOT.
We won’t be going anywhere except to IRAN to take care of the Iranian Regime that has killed many of our men and innocent Iraqi. The sooner the better.
For any new readers to Dollard’s site:
https://pat-dollard.com/2007/10/07/petraeus-irans-iraq-ambassador-is-quds-force-terrorist/
and
https://pat-dollard.com/index.php?s=Iranian Businessmen
December 1st, 2007 at 10:43 am