Posted on 06/02/2007 5:45:11 AM PDT by ASC2006
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead the Al-Qaeda militant group's leader in the western Iraq city of Fallujah on Saturday, police said, as fighting between rival Sunni factions continued.
Colonel Tareq al-Dulaimi, a senior police intelligence officer with close ties to Anbar Province's pro-US tribal coalition, confirmed reports that Muwaffaq al-Jugheifi had been killed but did not identify the attackers.
Dulaimi described the slain Al-Qaeda leader as an Iraqi from Fallujah.
A police capitain, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "Militants riding in two civilian cars opened fire on al-Jugheifi and his group on Saturday morning as they left the Abu Ayyub al-Ansari mosque."
Fallujah is currently at the centre of a large-scale security operation in which Iraqi police and tribal levies, backed by US forces, are attempting to drive Al-Qaeda's Islamist militants out of the town.
Saturday's killing came after the Anbar Salvation Council, the armed wing of the province's tribal coalition, announced that it was sending plainclothes "secret police" to Baghdad to kill Al-Qaeda leaders.
The council, whose fighters included thousands of former insurgents, has fallen out with Al-Qaeda and thrown its lot in with US forces. It has sent gunmen to join the Iraqi police and pro-US tribal levies.
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Gang warfare? Drive by shooting !
REALLY. Hmmmm.
You hadn’t heard about the Anbar Salvation Council? They are our best allies in Western Iraq. They are who we are building the Iraqi police and Army in Western Iraq with.
Hadn’t heard about it. Very Kurd-like, I guess?
Yes, I hope it becomes the Peshmerga for Western Iraq.
Yes, the Anbar Salvation Council can be compared to the Kurdish Peshmerga Forces.
The Anbar Salvation Council consists of Iraqi Sunni Tribal and secular (Baathist) former insurgents, who are fed up with Al-Qaeda. They are now succesfully cooperating with US Forces against Al-Qaeda.
Al Qaeda is sufficiently heinous that other Sunni muslims are up to killing them. However, American ‘rats don’t seem to agree.
Good. Any chance that they’ll stop Syria’s open-border meddling? That would go a long way toward stabilization.
Seems to be a lot more of that going around lately.
The ASC is who we are using for border guards, but keeping foreigners out isn’t easy as Syria’s border with Iraq is in many ways worse then the US/Mexico border.
Do you guys have any details about this ‘cease-fire’ that the media’s been ignoring? I need a decent, non MSM source, and that’s what FR does best. :)
Can't we just all get along?
The 1920 Revolution and Islamic Army in Iraq the two main Baathist groups have all but stopped fighting with us as they increasingly fight al-Qaeda.
This can’t be. SanFranNan has said that Al-Qaeda isn’t in Iraq.
"You hadn’t heard about the Anbar Salvation Council? They are our best allies in Western Iraq. They are who we are building the Iraqi police and Army in Western Iraq with."
Posted by: ASC2006 ____ Re: Anbar Salvation Council
Can I assume the initials are no coincidence? The connection?
I guess it's a race between when Al-Qaeda fails in Iraq and Iran goes nuclear
Coincidence
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