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Monday March 28, 09:55
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Baghdad security and insurgents skirmish
(by Natali Novak)
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Iraqi capital Baghdad today faced a skirmish between insurgent government employees and Iraqi security forces. The roadside bomb last left three people dead and at least five injured, the officials report.
The fire attack targeted a car carrying police Colonel Abdul Karim Fahad Abbasson on his way to Doura quarter. According to the words of Captain Falah al-Muhimadawi the blast killed the neighbourhood station chief and his driver.
"As long as we’re alive and as long as Iraq and the believers are there, we will continue to work according to the directions and the advice of the religious authority," Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Shi’a-led United Iraqi Alliance, told the United States-funded Alhurra TV station.
"The religious authority does not want to intervene in the details. It just gives direction when it thinks it will be beneficial," he added.
"The Syrians are not doing everything we’ve asked them to do," General Abizaid said. "The Syrians know there are facilitation cells in places like Damascus and Aleppo and Homs and Hamah. Their security services can find those facilitation cells. They can dismantle those cells."
"They certainly can go after the people that we’ve identified to them by name that are former members of the regime that are coordinating actions inside Syria. I won’t go so far as to say these groups have the active support of the Syrian government, but the Syrians certainly aren’t doing enough to shut off their support to the insurgency," he added.
"We didn’t carry any weapons or have any intention of shooting, but the minister’s body guards started firing on us," said Haithem Jassim, one of three people injured in the melee.
No comments were given upon this accident.
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