IED wounds cops, Sahwa fighter near Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen and a Sahwa council fighter on Sunday were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near Kirkuk city, according to a police source. “On Sunday evening, an explosive charge went off in al-Thawra neighborhood (65 km southwest of Kirkuk city), wounding two cops and a Sahwa fighter,” a source from the Joint Coordination Center in Kirkuk told IraqiNews.com news agency. The Sahwa councils are anti-Qaeda fighters working in coordination with the Multi-National Force (MNF) and the Iraqi government. Headed by local chieftains, the councils have been credited with helping reduce violence in many Iraqi provinces, like Anbar, Diala, Ninewa, and Salah al-Din. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1