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Iraqi militants attack checkpoint near Falluja
Dec 1, 2009, 8:08 GMT
Baghdad - Three members of a government-allied Sunni militia were injured in an attack on a checkpoint near the western Iraqi city of Falluja on Tuesday morning, police said.
Gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by members of the local Sahwa, or 'Awakening,' militia in al-Karama, north of Falluja, injuring three militiamen, police in Falluja told the German Press Agency dpa.
The area was formerly the site of some of the worst fighting between insurgents and US and Iraqi forces.
But the city has been relatively quiet since US and Iraqi forces enticed local Sunnis, many of them former Iraqi soldiers or former insurgents themselves, to switch sides with promises of money, weapons, training and jobs in the Interior Ministry.
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