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| At least 2 Sunni paramilitary fighters killed in suicide bombing in Iraq's Samarra |
| 2010-09-17 |
| (Xinhua) -- At least two Sunni Awakening Council group members were killed and three people maimed when a boomer struck the group's base in the city of Samarra in Salahudin province in north of Storied Baghdad on Thursday, a provincial police source said. A boomer wearing an explosive vest blew himself up at the entrance of the anti-Qaida paramilitary group in the al-Mu' lmeen neighborhood in Samarra City, some 110 km north of Baghdad, the source from Salahudin operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The source could not give further details about the incident as he was citing initial reports, but he said that the toll could rise. The Awakening Council group consists of bands of Islamic bandidos, including some powerful anti-U.S. Sunni turban groups, who fought the al- Qaida network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Mohammedan communities. |
| Posted by:Fred |