Word: latifiyah
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...political district of Mahmudiyah lies just south of metropolitan Baghdad and includes the violent urban centers of Yusifiyah, Latifiyah and Mahmudiyah. It shares a rough-and-tumble neighborhood with Anbar to the west and Babil to the south. A mixed region of Shi'a and Sunni, city and country, the mostly agricultural region suffers all the sectarian, economic and political woes of the capital. While the region's Sunni and Shi'ite tribes battled each other for land and primacy, they found a common enemy in the U.S. troops stationed there. But that situation changed about four months...
...that the militants conveniently describe as rogue elements. Windows into the machinations of the death squads are rare, but U.S. and Iraqi forces have gained some intelligence on them. Some operations have been uncovered in Sunni-controlled areas, like those of the radical Ansar al-Sunnah group discovered in Latifiyah more than a year ago during a U.S. sweep called Operation River Walk. Execution videos, swords and instruments of torture were found by soldiers in what were deemed to be killing rooms...
Pantano's lawyers dispute the prosecution's other critical claim: that the two men were shot in the back. "I don't know how they can say that when there are no bodies to examine," Gittins says. The bodies were reclaimed by the families. They came from Latifiyah, an insurgent hot spot where the battalion suffered many of its casualties during its seven months in the country. Gittins says a photograph taken by a Marine appears to show that the two Iraqis died of massive chest wounds...
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