More Good News From Iraq

al-Qaeda keep's wanting it's but's kicked, U.S. and Iraqi citizen's respond in kind.


From USA TODAY:

BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi forces killed an estimated 15 al-Qaeda gunmen during a fierce battle south of Baghdad after the militants launched a major attack on recently formed neighborhood patrols, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
The military said up to 45 al-Qaeda fighters launched a mortar attack and then assaulted two checkpoints manned by local security guards on Monday using small arms and heavy machine guns mounted on trucks in a day-long fight.

U.S. F-16 warplanes dropped two 500-pound bombs during the battle in the town of Adwaniya, about 12 miles southeast of Baghdad.
The al-Qaeda raid marked one of the biggest attacks on neighborhood patrols, many of which are paid by the U.S. military, since their numbers began increasing in and around Baghdad a few months ago.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-led government has voiced suspicion of such armed groups, which are made up predominantly of Sunni Arabs. A number of local guards are former insurgents who have since turned against al-Qaeda.Col. Terry Ferrell, commander of U.S. troops in the Adwaniya area, said U.S. and Iraqi ground forces and U.S. helicopters and warplanes were used to repel the attack. Two members of the 100-strong Adwaniya "concerned citizens" unit, set up only a week ago, were killed.
"The attack was focused specifically on the 'concerned citizens' and on their checkpoints," Ferrell said. Such groups first emerged last year when Sunni Arab tribal leaders, tired of al-Qaeda's indiscriminate killings and strict interpretation of Islam, set up neighborhood police units in Anbar province.
Anbar, once the heart of the Sunni Muslim insurgency, is now relatively peaceful, and the U.S. military has been spreading Anbar's model into other Sunni Arab and Shiite areas. About 70,000 Iraqis so far have been registered across Iraq under the neighborhood security plan.

Good news indeed, Sunni's, and Shia working together, more al-Qaeda annihalated. I detect large quantities of win in this sector.

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