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| Iraq attack kills Sawha leader and family |
| 2009-03-05 |
| At least eight people were killed and 22 wounded in separate attacks on police and a pro-United States (US) militia leader in Iraq on Wednesday, police sources said. Local Sahwa militia leader Dhiab Al-Ali, his wife, son, and grandson were killed when a roadside bomb hit their car near Balad, a former Al Qaeda stronghold 75km north of Baghdad, said the police. Sahwa Councils are a decentralised network of Sunni Arab militias recruited by the US military from insurgent groups and tribesmen. In central Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed two policemen and wounded 12 more people, defence and interior ministry officials said. The bomber set off an explosive belt in the middle of a patrol in the Karrada district, the sources said, adding seven of the casualties were police. |
| Posted by:Fred |