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May 4, 2009 | Hameed Rasheed and Liz Sly
Iraqi police have arrested a senior member of the U.S.-allied Awakening movement in Salahuddin province, the American military said Sunday, continuing a crackdown that has left many of the Sunni Muslim paramilitary fighters seething with anger. Mullah Nadim Jibouri, an Awakening leader in the town of Duluiya, 55 miles north of Baghdad, was detained Saturday along with two of his brothers, the military said.
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January 27, 2004 | From Associated Press
Gunmen killed seven Iraqi policemen in a pair of attacks west of Baghdad, officials said Monday, and missiles were fired at two U.S. bases with no reported casualties. The seven policemen were slain at checkpoints around the city of Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, on Sunday. Iraqi police who reported the attacks did not mention any insurgent casualties. A rocket was fired at the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition Monday night in Baghdad.
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January 15, 2009 | Ned Parker
In the darkened living room of a house surrounded by concrete barriers, Safaa Mamouri wipes his eyes and reproaches himself for how little he resembles his dead brother, a man even his enemies admired. "Qais was fearless. I'm not like him," he says. "From the first threat, I quit." Maj. Gen. Qais Hamza Mamouri presided over security here in Babil province at a dangerous time, when the country's sectarian war raged.
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May 29, 2005 | Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
As thousands of newly minted police officers in mismatched uniforms moved Saturday to cinch a security chokehold around this Iraqi capital, insurgents continued to lash out across the rest of the country. Nearly 40 people were killed in 24 hours in a rash of suicide bombings, assassinations and ambushes, from the northern city of Sinjar to the western border with Syria and the town of Hillah south of Baghdad.
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May 22, 2011 | By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times
A suicide bomber Sunday killed 10 police officers and wounded 19 others who had gathered at the site of a failed car bomb attack on the U.S. military just north of Baghdad, while six people were killed by a wave of bombings in the nation's capital, Iraqi security sources said. A car bomb blew up as a U.S. military convoy passed near Taji, the site of a major military installation north of Baghdad, but caused no damage to the Americans, according to an Iraqi security official. When police gathered by the site, a suicide bomber approached and blew himself up, the security official said.
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December 12, 2004 | From Associated Press
Violence continued unabated in Iraq on Saturday as insurgents killed five Iraqi police officers and a U.S. Marine. Fourteen American soldiers were wounded. The Marine was killed in the western province of Al Anbar. His identity was not released. As of Saturday, at least 1,287 U.S. military personnel had died since the war began. The 14 Americans were wounded in attacks in northern Iraq.