BESIEGED VILLAGERS KO QAEDA
August 24, 2007—BAGHDAD - Suspected al Qaeda fighters stormed two villages near Baqouba yesterday, bombed the house of a local Sunni sheik and kidnapped a group of mostly women - but residents drove off the attackers to end the rampage.
Seventeen villagers, including seven women, were killed in the assaults roughly 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Ten al Qaeda gunmen also died.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq has been forced to fight a rearguard action against many of its former allies in the Sunni community who have risen up against the terrorist organization because of its brutality and attempts to impose the group’s austere version of Islam. Shiite communities remain al Qaeda targets out of sectarian animosity.
I guess the Iraqis are stepping up, which counters the lies of the Dems/MSM. Can’t wait to see the leftie spin on this one.
Or maybe they will ignore it, as usual with good news from Iraq.
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