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radioguy
10-29-2007, 12:06 AM
Suicide bomber detonates upon discovery by CLCs
Multi-National Division – North PAO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071027-09
October 27, 2007


MUQDADIYA, Iraq – Acting on a tip from a local citizen, a group of Concerned Local Citizens located a suicide bomber, who detonated himself upon discovery in Muqdadiya Oct. 26.

The suicide bomber, who was believed to be targeting a populated area, detonated as soon as the CLC group entered the house he was located in, causing it to collapse. The collapse wounded one CLC and a suspected extremist who was in the house with the suicide bomber.

“Today’s discovery is a sure sign the population continues to grow tired of al- Qaeda’s barbaric acts,” said Col. David W. Sutherland, commander of Coalition Forces in Diyala province. “The local citizens and CLCs are both playing active roles in securing their areas and neighborhoods across Diyala – an important sign that they realize they must be the definers of their own democracy.”

“Because of the actions by the CLCs, many lives were saved,” Sutherland continued. “This is not the first time the CLCs have saved lives in their neighborhoods.

They truly are patriots serving to protect their families, tribes and neighbors.”

The wounded were transferred to a Coalition Forces’ medical facility for treatment.

Link (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14894&Itemid=128)

This is exactly the kind of thing that the administration had predicted would happen in Iraq back in the beginning. It's just too bad that it took them 4 years and thousands of murdered civilians, before they finally took a stand.

Moby
10-29-2007, 01:00 AM
Actually the AEI predicted this would happen within a few weeks and that the entire military campaign would take about 6 months.

It's good that it's happening but just imagine what could have happened if the AEI didn't write that bull shit and the President spent time focusing on the war instead of his campaign in 2004.

Jesse Hemingway
10-29-2007, 01:07 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MNVTFGXNFEOENQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQ UIV0?xml=/news/2007/10/28/nrbasra128.xml.


A former British Army interpreter in the city, whom it would be too dangerous to name, said that people had no confidence in the Iraqi army. Tribes and militias had seized control, he said. "It is not safe here. I have to sleep with a gun under my bed. The British Army leaving is a bad thing."

Jesse Hemingway
10-29-2007, 01:12 AM
'Mafia-like' criminals latest threat in Iraq, Petraeus says


By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press

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CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq — The threat from al-Qaida in several former strongholds in Baghdad has been significantly reduced, but criminals who have established "almost mafia-like presence" in some areas pose a new threat, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said today.

Gen. David Petraeus stressed, however, the terror organization remained "a very dangerous and very lethal enemy" — a comment underscored by the abduction today in Baghdad of 10 Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders who joined forces against al-Qaida.

"Its presence has been significantly reduced and its activity and freedom of action have been degraded," Petraeus told a small group of reporters at a U.S. base near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad.

He singled out success in what had been some of the most volatile Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad, including Ghazaliyah, Amariyah, Azamiyah and Dora.

"Having said that ... al-Qaida remains a very dangerous and very lethal enemy of Iraq," he said. "We must maintain contact with them and not allow them to establish sanctuaries or re-establish sanctuaries in places where they were before."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5252148.html