[Washington Post] John Ward Anderson - Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood battled the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week, leaving at least 28 people dead. The mayor of the Amiriyah neighborhood, Mohammed Abdul Khaliq, said residents were rising up to try to expel al-Qaeda in Iraq. "I think this is going to be the end of the al-Qaeda presence here," Abdul Khaliq said of the fighting, which began over accusations that al-Qaeda in Iraq had executed Sunnis without reason.
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