25 detainees released in Ramadi

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Twenty-five detainees at the Ramadi Police Department were released after proved not involved in charges against them, a local police source said. “The released detainees were handed over to their relatives in their respective residential areas,” Maj. Raheem Zein told IraqiNews.com news agency. Ramadi has been a stage for wide-scale acts of violence and armed operations that brought suffering to its local residents since 2004 before stability is restored when the sahwa (awakening) tribal forces joined hands with the Iraqi and U.S. security forces to flush the gunmen of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network out of the province. Earlier, a source in the Anbar police command had said that 22 detainees at the department were released after coming clean of charges against them. Ramadi, the capital city of the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 110 km west of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1