uk.reuters.com - 8/21/2008
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The separate pre-dawn raid in Diyala province highlighted the tension in one of the country's most violent regions. Governor Raad Rasheed Mulla Jawad, who survived a bomb attack last week, said a counter-terrorism unit stormed his office in the provincial capital Baquba at 2:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. British time). They killed the governor's secretary, Abbas Ali Hmoud, and arrested senior provincial ...
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Iraq To Cut Awakening Loose - Maybe By Nov. 1st
Newshoggers.com —
By Cernig
McClatchy's Leila Fadel in Baghdad writes that the Iraqi Shiite-controlled government have given up pretending to like the mostly Sunni Awakening movement which has been so crucial in ( it seems temporarily) reducing violence there. "We cannot stand them, and we detained many of them recently," said one senior Iraqi commander in ...
Iraq To Cut Awakening Loose - Maybe By Nov. 1st
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Posted By Cernig
McClatchy's Leila Fadel in Baghdad writes that the Iraqi Shiite-controlled government have given up pretending to like the mostly Sunni Awakening movement which has been so crucial in ( it seems temporarily) reducing violence there. "We cannot stand them, and we detained many of them recently," said one senior Iraqi commander in ...
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