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Policemen raid Anbar official’s house in search of wanted persons

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: The Anbar‘s provincial council member Muzher al-Mulla Khidr said on Tuesday that a force from the province’s security operations department raided his house in search of wanted persons. “Anbar Operations Command (AOC) forces stormed my house in Jazeerat al-Ramadi area, northern Anbar, under the pretext of searching for wanted men,” Khidr told IraqiNews.com news agency. “There was no search warrant with the raiding forces,” he said, demanding a probe into the incident. Ramadi, the capital city of the predominantly Sunni province of Anbar, lies 110 km west of Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 2