Armed group says leader killed in IED blast in Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The 1920 Revolution Brigades announced on Saturday the death of its leader in the area of Abu Ghraib, western Baghdad, in a blast from an improvised explosive device attached to his vehicle on Wednesday evening. “The 1920 Revolution Brigades announces the ascension of mujahid leader Taher Ulwan Shallal al-Juburi, the commander of the Abu Ghraib intersection, to the rank of martyr at 06:00 p.m. on Wednesday (Aug. 5) as a result of a cowardly assault,” according to a statement by the armed group as received by IraqiNews.com news agency. “Juburi is the third commander for the Abu Ghraib intersection to be martyred in the field of battle,” the statement read. The 1920 Revolution Brigades is a Sunni militia group in Iraq, which includes former members of the disbanded Iraqi army. The group has used improvised explosive devices, and armed attacks against U.S occupation forces. The 1920 Revolution Brigades describes its aim as to establish a liberated and independent Iraqi state on an Islamic basis. It has been active in the area west of Baghdad, in the regions of Abu Ghraib, Khan Dari and Falluja and in the provinces of Ninewa, Diala, and al-Anbar. The name of the group (Literally “Brigades of the Revolution of the Twenty”) refers to the 1920 revolution against British colonial rule in Iraq, drawing an implicit parallel between the nationalist resistance against that occupation with the guerrillas fighting U.S. forces today. AmR (S) 2