Iraq plans crackdown in violent province
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Iraqi men on a coffin with the chief of Babil province police Brig. Gen.Qais al-Maamouri during his funeral ceremony in the holy shrine of Immam Hussein in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday Dec. 9, 2007. The General was killed along with his two bodyguards after his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in the city of Hillah. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Hussaini)
AP - Iraq's defense minister promised on Sunday to wage a new crackdown in a volatile province northeast of Baghdad where militants are trying to regroup after being routed from their urban stronghold there last summer. |
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