Anbar: Iraqi forces carried out a series of security measures at the border by helicopter
Posted 17/03/2012 02:45 PM
BAGHDAD - Babinaoz (Reuters) - Authorities said security in Anbar that Iraqi forces carried out a series of measures by helicopter gunships on the border which has with Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Iraq is trying hard to tighten the grip on the border days before holding an Arab summit in Baghdad on 29 March March. said a police source in Anbar, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), asking not to be named "Iraqi forces carried out a security crackdown began from the day included a tightening of procedures adopted to ensure protection to the Iraqi border between the three countries adjacent to the Inbar, namely Saudi Arabia, Jordan and particularly Syria." and participated in a series of actions border guards the second zone, the army and the police and the cohorts of emergency and the support of helicopter gunships, according to the source. The source added that "the campaign was approaching the Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which was a plan of joint security with the Chamber of emergency operations shared between the provinces of Iraq" . He said "all the districts and areas (towns) of Anbar included the campaign's security inspection desert, valleys, caves and comb the villages and rural areas and enhance the security presence at the entrances and exits for fear of targeting civilians and security elements." He said, "is not specified curfew in Anbar during the Arab Summit and the it will be necessary to impose the ban order of the security leaders overseeing the campaign, with the strengthening of inspection procedures and monitoring in the vicinity and cross-Anbar and Baghdad from the west. "
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