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Iraqis to Take Over Anbar Province
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| Last Edited | kal Jul 07, 2008 09:08pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 26, 2008 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Once the most violent place in Iraq, Anbar province will come under Provincial Iraqi Control on Saturday, a senior military official said Monday.
So far, nine Iraqi provinces are under Provincial Iraqi Control, or PIC, in which Iraqi security forces perform day-to-day operations and U.S. troops provide assistance as needed, the military official told reporters.
"When you PIC a province, the coalition force goes into what we call an operational overwatch: They're there, essentially as a security blanket," the official said.
Anbar province is home to Fallujah, the site of some of the fiercest fighting of the war in 2004 and which averaged about 41 attacks per day against U.S. and Iraqi forces in November 2006, the highest in any of Iraq's 18 provinces at the time.
Local Sunnis initially fought alongside Al-Qaida in Iraq to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq, but when al-Qaida targeted Sunni clans to take control of the insurgency, local sheiks formed an alliance to run the terrorists out of town.
The Pentagon's most recent progress report on Iraq listed only two attacks per day against U.S. troops, Iraqi security forces, Iraqi civilians, infrastructure and government organizations.
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