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Ali Hussein Khalaf, and Mohsen Jabar Khalaf, alleged members of a local Sunni neighborhood militia called the "local committee" meet with a U.S. Army officer at a base in the Burhitz neighborhood of Baquba, Iraq June 28, 2007. In April of 2007 the U.S. Army began cooperating with the nearly 200 members of the Sunni militia to combat Al Qaeda in the area, and since then has enjoyed a good deal of success (and no attacks on U.S. forces in Burhitz) in securing that neighborhood. Although some of the groups members are former members of known local insurgent groups like the "1920's Brigade", both the militia and the U.S. Army say that they have found a common enemy in Al Qaeda and have pledged to work together. ....
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