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| 2 AQI members netted in northern Wassit battle |
| 2010-06-27 |
| WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Forces from the Wassit-based Quick Response Department arrested two leading members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) during a battle with the gunmen in the northern part of the province on Saturday, according to a senior security official. “The interior ministry's QRD forces clashed with a group of gunmen from the AQI in the area of al-Shujairiya, al-Suwayra district, (135 km) north of al-Kut city,' Maj. Aziz al-Amara, the QRD commander, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The operation resulted in the capture of Ali Hussein and Yasser Hassan while other gunmen escaped to unknown places,' he added. Amara said initial investigations with the two men showed that they lead armed groups of Al-Qaeda and wage armed operations against civilians and Iraqi security forces. Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad. |
| Posted by:Steve White |