http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?ref=middleeas t <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?ref=middleea st&pagewanted=print> &pagewanted=print 11 Killed in Attacks on Sunni Patrols and Security Forces in Iraq By CARA <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/cara_buckley/i ndex.html?inline=nyt-per> BUCKLEY
BAGHDAD - Bomb blasts, ambushes and gunfights across Iraq <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ir aq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> left 11 people dead on Saturday, including four members of American-backed security patrols charged with rooting out insurgents. The security patrols, which are mostly Sunni groups known as Awakening Councils, have been credited with helping to drive down violence here. But their work with the Americans has put them in the cross hairs of Al <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_qaed a_in_mesopotamia/index.html?inline=nyt-org> Qaeda of Mesopotamia, a homegrown extremist group that American intelligence agencies say they believe is led by foreigners. The attacks occurred as Iraqis prepared for the Muslim holiday of Id al-Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, which begins this week. In the north Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya, three security patrol members were killed in two separate attacks when roadside bombs blew up near their headquarters after noon. Fifteen people were wounded in the blasts. Also around midday, insurgents hiding in a house opened fire on a checkpoint run by Awakening Council members in the south Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, wounding three people. In Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad, Sunni extremists attacked another security patrol, killing one person and wounding four. Awakening Council members are paid roughly $300 a month by American forces to act as neighborhood watchdogs in areas where security forces are thin. There are at least 60,000 members of the Awakening Councils nationwide, according to the American military. Many of them are former extremists. Most of those in the mainly Sunni citizen groups are seeking to join the Shiite-dominated Iraqi police, though there has been criticism that they have been absorbed too slowly. In other attacks in the capital on Saturday, two roadside bombs detonated in eastern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding two policemen. The second bomb exploded moments after the first, hitting those who had gathered to inspect the blast site. A roadside bomb aimed at an American military convoy went off in a Christian neighborhood by the country's main tax office, but officials said no one was killed or hurt. A car bomb had exploded in the same neighborhood on Wednesday, killing five people shopping at an outdoor vegetable and fruit market and wounding 13 others. Around midday in Adhamiya, where the Awakening Council members were attacked, gunmen opened fire on a minibus, wounding two government workers. Shortly before sunset, a car bomb exploded in a neighborhood in south Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three. Meanwhile, in strife-ridden Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad, a gunfight between insurgents and Iraqi security forces left four people dead, three of them police officers. Afterward, the dead and wounded were laid out in a nearby orchard, a police official said, before ambulance crews arrived. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
