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| Two militiamen shot dead in Iraq |
| 2009-03-09 |
| Gunmen shot dead two US-allied Iraqi militiamen at a checkpoint in western Baghdad on Monday, a security service official said. "Armed men opened fire on a Sahwa (militia) checkpoint in the Jihad district, killing two men," an official said. Sounds like the right district. Sahwa (Awakening) councils are a decentralised network of Sunni Arab militias recruited by the US military from insurgent groups and tribesmen. Many of them fought US and Iraqi forces after the 2003 invasion toppled Saddam Hussein before they joined forces with the US military in 2006 to fight Al-Qaeda linked jihadists |
| Posted by:ryuge |