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6,000 Sunnis to cooperate with U.S. forces in hunting gunmen - paper
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| News Date | Friday, November 30, 2007 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Nearly 6,000 tribal Sunni Arabs from the city of Howaiyja joined a security pact with American forces on Wednesday in what U.S. officers described as a critical step in plugging the remaining escape routes for gunmen flushed from former strongholds, reported the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
"The new alliance - called the single largest volunteer mobilization since the war began - covers the "last gateway" for groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq seeking new havens in northern Iraq, U.S. military officials said," the paper said.
"U.S. commanders have tried to build a ring around gunmen who fled military offensives launched earlier this year in the western Anbar province and later into Baghdad and surrounding areas. In many places, the U.S.-led battles were given key help from tribal militias -- mainly Sunnis -- that had turned against al-Qaeda and other groups," it also said.
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