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               Anti-Qaida Fighters Among 8 Killed in Iraq Attacks

   Bombings in central Iraq have killed at least 11 people, including
   anti-al-Qaida Sunni fighters near the former insurgent stronghold of
   Fallujah.
   The pro-government militiamen had gathered Wednesday outside a military
   post in the city west of Baghdad to collect their pay when a suicide
   bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself near the group,
   killing at least three of the fighters and a civilian. Police said the
   blast also wounded 15 people.
   The Sahwa fighters are made up of Sunni Arabs who joined forces with
   the U.S. military to battle al-Qaida at the height of Iraq`s
   insurgency. They have since been regularly targeted by Sunni insurgents
   who see them as traitors.
   In a separate attack in Baghdad, a car bomb in the eastern suburb of
   al-Husseiniyah killed four civilians and wounded 10 more.
   Another car bomb north of the city of Ramadi - which, like Fallujah, is
   in Iraq`s restive Anbar province - killed at least two policemen and
   wounded another 10.
   Wednesday`s attacks follow a wave of violence that killed scores of
   Iraqis in April, raising fears of a return to the sectarian violence
   that left tens of thousands dead in 2006 and 2007.
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