Crackdown On Iraq Sunni Leader After Car Bombs Found Near His Compound - Son, Guards Arrested

Crackdown On Iraq Sunni Leader

After Car Bombs Found Near His Compound

Son, Guards Arrested
Saturday, December 01, 2007

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AFP.google.com had this story out yesterday afternoon and it starts off like this... Iraqi and U.S. Troops cracked down on powerful Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi on Friday, arresting his son, dozens of his guards and placing him under effective house arrest after bombs were found near his premises... An angry Dulaimi denied knowledge of the bombs and warned the action could have consequences for Iraq's already shaky political reconciliation process which the main Sunni parliamentary bloc said was being "poisoned" by the Shiite-led government... The US military said Iraqi forces had "asked Dulaimi to remain in his residence for his own personal safety."...
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Crackdown on Iraq Sunni leader after bombs found
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>>> IHT.com has this take on the story... U.S. and Iraqi troops pursuing a gunman to the office of a prominent Sunni Arab leader detained some three dozen people linked to the politician, including his son and a guard with the keys to a suicide car bomb, U.S. and Iraqi military officials said Friday...
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Leading Iraqi Sunni's son among dozens held after US, Iraqi troops find bomb near compound
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* Today, (Saturday, Dec. 1st,) IHT.com reports...
Lawmakers from parliament's largest Sunni Arab bloc walked out of Saturday's session to protest what they called the house arrest of their leader following the discovery of a car bomb near his compound... U.S. and Iraqi officials said the keys to the vehicle were found on one of Adnan al-Dulaimi's bodyguards. Al-Dulaimi's son, Maki al-Maliki, and about 30 other people were arrested Friday...
Sunni lawmakers walk out of Iraqi parliament to protest leader's "house arrest"

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I for one don’t care who they are... If they are BAD... arrest them or kill um.
A great big ‘Good Job’ goes out to the Iraqi/U.S. Troops on this one...
AubreyJ.........