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| Iraq |
| Al-Qaeda 'kills, wounds' 4000 in six months |
| 2007-07-11 |
| AL-QAEDA in Iraq killed or wounded more than 4000 Iraqis in suicide attacks in the past six months, US military spokesman Brigadier General Kevin Bergner said today. Bergner said most of these attacks were carried out by foreign-born “terrorists” and that while their numbers are “relatively small ... their effects are very, very devastating on the people of Iraq.” He said that around 60 to 80 foreigners are brought to Iraq every month by al-Qaeda in Iraq, a local militant group that sprang up in the wake of the US-led invasion of March 2003 and professes allegiance to the global Jihadi front. “They are the principal threat in a complex security environment. al-Qaeda is the principal destability factor targeting the Government of Iraq,” Brig-Gen Bergner said, in a weekly briefing largely dedicated to the al-Qaeda threat. He said US-led coalition forces continued to target the group's strongholds across Iraq and that they had “killed or captured 26 high-level leaders during May and June”. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 The spokesman should have emphasized that the al-Q were killing Muslims. That the only people they can kill are helpless and innocent Muslim women and children. That would go over real well. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-07-11 17:44 |
| #1 i guess it 9is bushs' fault though |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-07-11 14:23 |