Security forces have arrested 14 gunmen from the Black Banners organisation, a group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq, the Iraqi Defence Ministry said Saturday (August 4th).
Army operations to seek out terrorist hideouts are on-going in Latifiya, south of Baghdad, the ministry said in a statement obtained by Al-Shorfa.
In the course of these operations, security forces discovered a Black Banners hideout and weapons and explosives cache containing a number of Katyushas and locally-made rocket launchers, it said.
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انس
2012-8-7
There is no diety except God. There is neither might nor power except from God. Why don't they abandon violence and come to work and build? Why don’t we become like the rest of the people who want a decent living? Do we deserve only violence and blood? God is Greater than the ones who grieved the people of Iraq!
شاكر مشعان
2012-8-6
The greatest thing owned by a nation on its land is security and creating it in the hearts of its citizens and on its territory as well as in all its roads. Also, this is what the greatest men of the world, the special Iraqi Forces men, have been able to achieve with a strong and decent support of the men of the Iraqi Government. Together, they have been able to achieve a fantastic security situation in Iraq after the danger has been in every inch and every meter of the ancient Iraq. Today is a different day for it is a feast day in the hearts of all the Iraqi citizens, as after the Iraqi hearts have thought that the absence of security, stability and tranquility from the Iraqi territory is permanent and not temporary, and no change will occur. However, the Iraqi efforts by the Iraqi Forces and the Iraqi Government surprised everyone as they were able to completely eliminate the greatest risk in the Iraqi land which is the brutal terrorist groups and organizations. The Iraqi Forces finally managed to defeat those terrorist groups on the land of Iraq and finally has the sense of serenity which overwhelmed the hearts of the Iraqi citizens once again. The ambition pulsated in their hearts again and the spirit of life is on the way to return to all the streets of Iraq and all the roads. What happened was not easy and the salvation had not been easy and yet, at the same time, it was great. The whole world’s blessings are not enough for the great Iraqi people for the salvation of the enormous threats that surrounded its territories one day, and the land of Iraq was and will always be, Allah willing, the land of security and tranquility in the world.