‘US-Iraqi attacks on rebel towns are genocide’

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AMMAN - Military operations to purge Iraqi cities of insurgents, who come primarily from the Sunni Arab community, amount to genocide, according to press reports on Saturday of a Sunni meeting in Jordan.

“The Sunnis are the target of a campaign of genocide,” Saleh Al Mutlaq, a leader of the Council for National Dialogue, was quoted as saying.

Mutlaq added that he could not rule out “a movement of civil disobedience if these massacres continue.”

On Thursday, an Iraqi general said an Iraqi-US military operation to uproot rebels from the northern town of Tal Afar has been successfully completed.