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Operation Arrowhead Becomes Fountainhead of Anger - by Ali al-Fadhily

Operation Arrowhead Becomes Fountainhead of Anger - by Ali al-Fadhily: "Shakir said many of his relatives and neighbors were killed by the military while attempting to leave the area. 'I cannot tell you how many people were killed, but bodies of civilians were left in the streets.'
'We all know now that the U.S. military is using the name of al-Qaeda to cover attacks against our national resistance fighters and civilians who wish immediate or scheduled withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq,' Hilmi Saed, an Iraqi journalist from Baghdad, told IPS on the outskirts of Baquba. "

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