Breaking: AQ Suicide Bomber Misses Major Anbar Awakening Sheik, Kills 6
BAGHDAD (AP) - A suicide bombing killed six people in Anbar province on Sunday, but the target of the attack, a U.S.-backed Sunni tribal sheik, was unhurt, police said.
The bomber detonated explosives in his belt after four guards stopped him at the checkpoint leading to the sheik’s farm near Fallujah. The attack killed the four guards and two civilians and injured four people, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals.
The sheik, Aeifan al-Issawi, is a leading member of the Anbar Awakening Council, a Sunni group that has turned against al-Qaida in Iraq.
The U.S. military has credited the emergence of councils with a major part in the decline in violence nationwide over the past six months. Such groups, backed by the Americans, have also managed to expel al- Qaida from much of Anbar, a largely desert province in western Iraq.
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