Local Anbar Residents “Stepping Up”!
32 Al Qaeda Killed In Fallujah
As I’ve been saying, Al Qaeda will be unable to survive without haven provided by the locals. This is why they are on the run throughout the country, and have resorted to things like bombing obscure sects in the hinterlands, like the Yazidis:
Anbar, Sept 3, (VOI) – U.S. army forces killed 32 members of al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq and arrested 55 others during security raids in the suburbs of al-Karma in north of Falluja, a police source said.
“The U.S. soldiers waged incessant ground and air attacks during the past three days in the areas where al-Qaeda members are holed up in al-Karma and Zhiraa Dijla, some 15-20 km north of Falluja,†the source, who declined to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“Most of the killings occurred by aerial bombardment while the arrests by ground patrols,†the source said.
The source pointed out that the U.S. army “would not have been able to have the upper hand over the gunmen had it not been for the local residents’ refusal to harbor them,†adding “this prompted the gunmen to resort to remote desert areas, which made it easier for the U.S. forces to sort them out from the civilians and directly target them.â€
Falluja, one of the largest cities in the Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of Baghdad.