IRAQ: Government forces arrest more than 200 suspects in major crackdown in volatile province
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IRAQ: Government forces arrest more than 200 suspects in major crackdown in volatile province
More than 200 wanted suspects were arrested by the Iraqi army in a large operation against insurgents last week in Diyala province were shown on Tuesday (October 3, 2006). Diyala is a volatile, ethnically-mixed area northeast of the capital that has seen some of the worst violence over recent months. Code-named as "Operation Quick Response", the crackdown was supervised by Minister of Defence General Abdul Qader al-Obeidi and Iraqi army chief-of-staff Lieutenant General Babaker Zibari . During the raid, soldiers sealed off streets and searched houses in al-Gatoon, a restive neighbourhood in the western part of the provincial capital Baquba, said Brigadier Shakir al-Ka'bi, commander of the 5th Division of the Iraqi Army. . He said that 251 suspects had been arrested in the sweeps from terrorists organisations including Ansar al-Sunna and al Qaeda network in Iraq, formerly Jamaat al-Tawheed wa al-Jihad (Monotheism and Fighting Group). "We have arrested 251 wanted terrorists from a number of networks including Ansar al-Sunna group, Jamaat al Tawheed wa al Jihad , the 2th Revolution Brigades and a number of Saddam's followers and militiamen," said Brigadier Ka'bi. Earlier, military spokesman Brigadier Qasim al-Moussawi said that among the arrested suspects was Atta Hadi al-Sadoun, who is of driving Shi'ite families out of a nearby town. The operation went peacefully, with no reported casualties. U.S. commanders describe Diyala as "the perfect storm" -- an area where Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites all are competing for control of towns and villages. Like the ethnically and religiously mixed capital to the south, it has seen a surge of violence since an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in February. The al-Gatoon neighbourhood of Baquba is where U.S. forces killed a family of eight including four women in a gun battle and air strikes after taking fire during a raid on Wednesday (September 27).
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