PM to hand over Anbar security dossier to local council

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed to hand over the security dossier of western Iraq‘s province of al-Anbar to its local council, following the province’s al-Jubeil explosion that killed 7 persons, including women and children, according to the council chairman, Saadoun Obeid al-Shaalan, on Saturday. “Maliki ordered a commission formed to investigate al-Jubeil incident in a bid to bring those who carried out the attacks to justice and provide the families of the victims with compensations,” Shaalan told IraqiNews.com news agency. An Anbar police source had said that seven civilians, including a woman and two children, were killed in a joint Iraqi-U.S. attack in al-Jubiel, south of Falluja city, on Sept. 9 that also left four others, including an 85-year-old woman, wounded. Anbar‘s Provincial Council had condemned the operation, describing it as a violation of the security agreement between Iraq and the United States. Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly-Sunni province of al-Anbar, is 45 km west of Baghdad. SKH (S)/SR/AmR 1