30 militants killed in Baghdad as PM declares new crackdown
AFP, January, 2007
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi troops killed 30 militants in a fierce firefight in Baghdad just hours after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared a new security crackdown to restore stability in the violence-wracked Iraqi capital. State television Al-Iraqiya reported that the Iraqi army clashed with insurgents in central Baghdad's notorious Haifa Street neighbourhood and killed 30 militants and captured many others, including four Sudanese.
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Haifa Street, located close to the heavily fortified Green Zone where the present Iraqi government sits, used to house top officials of Saddam Hussein's regime. The firefight came just hours after Maliki announced that Iraqi forces backed by US troops will forcefully execute a revised security plan to secure Baghdad, which sees dozens of people killed daily. Announcing the revised security plan, Maliki said that local Iraqi army commanders will play a bigger role as per the new initiative. "We will rely on our armed forces to ...
