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Iraq expects 'tough' fighting in Qaeda stronghold
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| Last Edited | kal Jul 13, 2008 10:17am |
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| News Date | Sunday, July 13, 2008 04:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Iraqi security forces expect to encounter tough resistance when they launch a promised offensive in Diyala province, an Al-Qaeda stronghold north of the capital, a top official said on Sunday.
"Very soon there will be a big operation by our security forces in Diyala," interior ministry spokesman Major General Abul Karim Khalaf told reporters without giving a specific timeframe.
"There will be fighting. It is going to be tough," Khalaf conceded.
"We hope to succeed. We already have people there collecting information. Inshallah (God willing) we will succeed as we did in other places."
Diyala and its capital Baquba remain one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq with frequent suicide attacks, including several carried out by female bombers, and car bombings.
In January, Iraqi and US troops launched "Operation Iron Harvest" in Diyala aimed at running Al-Qaeda out of long-held strongholds.
One of the major successes of that operation was the wresting of control of the "breadbasket" farmlands surrounding the town of Muqdadiyah, which the jihadists had tightly controlled for more than a year.
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