U.S. occupation forces and Iraqi police raided an area west of Baghdad on Saturday and detained 11 people suspected of links to resistance, witnesses said.
Eight men and three women were taken into custody during the raids, which started before dawn around the town of Khaldiyah, The AP reported.
In Baghdad, supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr complained that 12 members of the local council in the Sadr City neighborhood were arrested by U.S. and Iraqi forces Thursday. The 80 council members were selected by al-Sadr's forces as a rival to those appointed by the U.S.-led coalition.
Salah Hassan Rabat, a lawyer, said an Iraqi judge had ordered their release, but the Americans were still holding them on charges of breaking into a government building. (Albawaba.com)
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