{"id":483,"date":"2010-06-23T15:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=483"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:58:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T15:58:39","slug":"deadly-bombings-strike-iraq-s-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/23\/483\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly bombings strike Iraq&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: left;\" alt=\"bombs_iraq\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/bombs_iraq.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"175\" \/>Two senior members of a government-backed Iraqi militia have been killed in separate bomb attacks north of the capital, Baghdad. Raad Tami al-Mujamai and Khamis Sabaa al-Aqabi were killed when bombs attached to their cars detonated on Tuesday in the town of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, police said.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two were members of a local Awakening Council, or Sahwa &#8211; bands of former Sunni fighters formed in 2006 to help US and Iraqi forces fight al-Qaeda.<br \/>Buhriz, where the attacks occurred, lies in Diyala, a religiously and ethnically mixed province with a Sunni majority that has seen much fighting in the past.<br \/>Al-Mujamai was a senior member of the Mujamai tribe, one of the largest in Diyala.<br \/>The targeted killings of policemen, soldiers, government officials and former fighters are stoking tensions in Iraq following a parliamentary election in March that produced no clear winner and has yet to yield a government.<br \/>Seven other people were killed in similar attacks in Baghdad, Mosul and Fallujah. The Fallujah attack killed Najim Abid al-Issawi, a Sahwa member and vocal critic of al-Qaeda in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series of attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The killings in Buhriz are the latest blow in what appeared to be a campaign to undermine Iraq&#8217;s fragile security gains.<br \/>Last week, armed men shot dead a local council leader and four members of his family in Falluja, west of Baghdad.<br \/>Police blamed the killing on al-Qaeda.<br \/>The Awakening Councils are seen as crucial to defending significant security gains made over the past few years.<br \/>Iraqi leaders promised to give government jobs to some 90,000 Sahwa members, but only about 42,000 of the fighters have been offered jobs, according to government officials.<br \/>Thousands of other Sahwa fighters were asked to stay with their neighbourhood security patrols through Iraq&#8217;s March 7 parliamentary election and until a new government is formed.<br \/>The Awakening Councils were credited with helping to significantly cut violence since the worst of the sectarian bloodshed in 2006-07, when tens of thousands of people were killed.<br \/>On May 12, a minivan packed with explosives blew up at a crowded market in the town of Khalis, also in Diyala, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80 others.<br \/>Before joining the fight against al-Qaeda, members of the Awakening Councils were accused of killing American and Iraqi soldiers.<br \/>Some of their former leaders and fighters were arrested by Iraqi security forces to face those accusations, forcing others into hiding.<br \/>Many other Sahwa leaders have been targeted by bombings and assassinations in recent weeks in what appear to be either acts of revenge or part of a campaign to scare them back into the ranks of the uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two senior members of a government-backed Iraqi militia have been killed in separate bomb attacks north of the capital, Baghdad. 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