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08-31-06, 08:06 AM
US Marines request halt of attacks in Iraqi province
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Wednesday August 30, 2006
Baghdad- US Marines based in Iraq's western al-Anbar Governorate used amplifiers Wednesday to broadcast to local residents messages of reconciliation including calls to refrain from targeting US forces. In the course of campaign, which began Tuesday, the Marines mounted speakers on their vehicles as they patrolled the streets of al-Anbar provincial capital Ramadi and other cities including Fallujah, Heet, Qaem.
"Dear citizens," one of the Arabic broadcasts said. "US armed forces intend on withdrawing from Iraq and returning to the United States, and each soldier will return to their family. Just as you have children, we have children of our own whom we wish to return to - safely and securely."
Other broadcasts called on al-Anbar's residents to "refrain from launching rocket attacks and from planting explosive devices targeting US patrols, as these acts will serve to delay the withdrawal of our forces from your country."
Major Abdel Karim al-Duleimi of the Ramadi Police Department told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that "US forces in Iraq have been confronted with increasingly violent resistance since the beginning of the occupation three years ago until this day."
The police official added that the number of arrests conducted by foreign forces in Iraq has diminished in 2006 in comparison to the recorded number of arrests conducted last year, despite the occurrence of continuing armed confrontations.
US Marine forces, deployed in al-Anbar's cities to contain outbreaks of violence, have for the past three months attempted to improve their public image amongst local residents.
A joint statistical study conducted at the beginning of 2006 by Harvard University and a team of researchers from Iraq's al-Muntasariya University revealed that the number of human casualties recorded in the al-Anbar province exceed those of Iraq's other province by 50 per cent.
Ellie
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Wednesday August 30, 2006
Baghdad- US Marines based in Iraq's western al-Anbar Governorate used amplifiers Wednesday to broadcast to local residents messages of reconciliation including calls to refrain from targeting US forces. In the course of campaign, which began Tuesday, the Marines mounted speakers on their vehicles as they patrolled the streets of al-Anbar provincial capital Ramadi and other cities including Fallujah, Heet, Qaem.
"Dear citizens," one of the Arabic broadcasts said. "US armed forces intend on withdrawing from Iraq and returning to the United States, and each soldier will return to their family. Just as you have children, we have children of our own whom we wish to return to - safely and securely."
Other broadcasts called on al-Anbar's residents to "refrain from launching rocket attacks and from planting explosive devices targeting US patrols, as these acts will serve to delay the withdrawal of our forces from your country."
Major Abdel Karim al-Duleimi of the Ramadi Police Department told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that "US forces in Iraq have been confronted with increasingly violent resistance since the beginning of the occupation three years ago until this day."
The police official added that the number of arrests conducted by foreign forces in Iraq has diminished in 2006 in comparison to the recorded number of arrests conducted last year, despite the occurrence of continuing armed confrontations.
US Marine forces, deployed in al-Anbar's cities to contain outbreaks of violence, have for the past three months attempted to improve their public image amongst local residents.
A joint statistical study conducted at the beginning of 2006 by Harvard University and a team of researchers from Iraq's al-Muntasariya University revealed that the number of human casualties recorded in the al-Anbar province exceed those of Iraq's other province by 50 per cent.
Ellie