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Falluja police arrest two gunmen involved in killing scholar

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Police forces arrested two gunmen involved in killing religious scholars and mosques’ imams in Falluja, chief of Falluja police said on Thursday. “The two detainees confessed during interrogation to taking part in armed operations against imams and scholars and to killing Sheikh Ihsan al-Douri in Falluja,” Mahmoud al-Issawi told IraqiNews.com news agency. “They belongs to what is called Tiyour al-Janna (Heaven’s Birds) which belongs to al-Qaeda,” he added. Falluja, Anbar province, is 45 km west of Baghdad, while Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, lies 110 km west of the Iraqi capital. SH (P) 2