15 Iraqi national guardsmen killed in attack near Syrian border: police

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/October/focusoniraq_October149.xml§ion=focusoniraq

RAMADI, Iraq - Fifteen Iraqi national guardsmen were killed in an overnight attack in Qaim near the Syrian border, according to a police officer in the town and a message received at provincial police headquarters Thursday.

“Armed gunmen attacked a national guard post overnight, killing 15 soldiers and stealing their weapons,” read the internal message at the Ramadi headquarters for Al-Anbar province.

A police officer in Qaim, a suspected gateway for foreign fighters on their way from Syria to the rebel town of Fallujah in western Iraq, confirmed the attack and gave the same death toll, on condition of anonymity.

In a separate attack, a national guard checkpoint in Rutba, close to the Jordanian border, was attacked without casualties, as the assailants seized weapons and fled, according to Ramadi police.

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[Dhalgren]

1. So, the biggest supplier of weapons to the insurgency

is the US. We should start giving the Iraqi NG faulty weapons, that way we can undermine the insurgents... :eyes: