Twenty thousand fighters taking part in a military operation to hunt down al-Qaeda in Anbar desert

Thousands of Iraqi troops launched a major operation in the desert city of Anbar province west of the country to hunt down al-Qaeda and have strengthened their deployment along the Iraqi-Syrian border to prevent infiltration, according to a Saturday, a senior military official

AFP - Baghdad (AFP) - Thousands of Iraqi troops launched a major operation in the desert city of Anbar province west of the country to hunt down al-Qaeda and have strengthened their deployment along the Iraqi-Syrian border to prevent infiltration, according to a military official said Saturday a high level.

Said Lt. Gen. Ali Ghaidan "Today we launched a major security operation to hunt down al-Qaeda members who are carrying out the kidnapping and threat to the security forces and citizens."

He added that the "process involving the Anbar Operations Command and the island and federal police forces include Anbar desert, Wadi Horan and Qaim, Alkaarh and cunning Wolf, with the support Army Aviation."

The process involves the same areas that saw the gunmen belonging to al Qaeda killed 48 Syrian soldiers fled port Elierbeh border into Iraq in March last, the Iraqi authorities and sent back across Anbar province.

The senior official said that twenty thousand troops involved in the operation, which began at dawn on Saturday.

The process resulted According Ghaidan the destruction of one of the biggest al-Qaeda camps called sword sea camp in the desert, and the arrest of a number of elements of the organization.

The Iraqi officer said he was finished securing the international highway linking gray Balrdobh, in full, after he witnessed a series of kidnappings and killings.

Moreover, Ghaidan said that "the leadership of the island stepped up its deployment on the Iraqi-Syrian border," adding that "the border that stretches 640 kilometers from the port newborn in Anbar Rabia in Mosul fully insured."

He explained that "the fear of breaches come from the Syrian side of the border and not from the Iraqi border."

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense Mohammed al-Askari team that a special task force under the Ministry of Defense and enhanced air killed two leaders of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq" in a military operation in Baiji.

He explained that "the force managed to kill is the mandate of the South, Ali Hussein al-Azzawi and ordered the military wing of the organization Usmani Daini." He added that "the process has after Mlahakthma and engagement with them."


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