Enemy Neutralized in Iraq's Anbar Province, Colonel Says

By Jim Garamone | American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2008 - The enemy in the eastern portion of Iraq's Anbar province has been neutralized, the coalition commander in the area said today.

Al-Qaida in Iraq still can launch occasional horrific attacks, but in Ramadi and Fallujah - once strongholds of the terror group - security is allowing the region to transfer to provincial Iraqi control, Marine Corps Col. Lewis Craparotta, the area's coalition commander, told Pentagon reporters in a briefing via satellite from Camp Fallujah today.

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