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Middle East | Arrest tests loyalty of Iraq Awakening Iraq’s Awakening groups have been given much of the credit for reducing the level of violence in the country. But the arrest of a prominent leader of one of the groups may signal a wavering of loyalty to the government among some of the fighters, says the BBC’s Hugh Sykes in Baghdad.

Middle East | Arrest tests loyalty of Iraq Awakening

Iraq’s Awakening groups have been given much of the credit for reducing the level of violence in the country.

But the arrest of a prominent leader of one of the groups may signal a wavering of loyalty to the government among some of the fighters, says the BBC’s Hugh Sykes in Baghdad.



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March 30, 2009, 3:13pm