Five Iraqis serving as local volunteer guards in a U.S.-backed program were killed in insurgent violence in towns outside the Iraqi capital. Separately, a suspect believed responsible for coordinating roadside bombings in southern Iraq was captured, the U.S. military said Saturday.
Insurgents stormed a Sunni village just outside Iskandariyah, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Baghdad, killing three of the members of a so-called Awakening Council and abducting five on Friday, including the village's tribal chief, according to Ahmed al-Azawi, spokesman for the Awakening Council and an Iskandariyah police officer.
Beginning with a Sunni rebellion against …
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