Gunmen slay 11 of Iraqi reporter's family
An exiled Iraqi journalist claimed Monday sectarian gunmen massacred 11 members of his family in their Baghdad home.
On his Web site maintained at his home in Jordan, Dia al-Kawwaz said his two sisters, their husbands and seven children were shot by Shiite gunmen who were allowed to flee the shooting Sunday without police intervention, the BBC reported.
It wasn't divulged how Kawwaz got his details, but a Baghdad police source confirmed to the BBC the shooting had occurred.
Elsewhere, the U.S. military issued a statement saying its forces had killed 10 members of al-Qaida in an operation north of Baghdad, Kuwait's KUNA news agency reported. It said in a separate operation, U.S. troops detained eight insurgents near Samara.
Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. Ed Cardon, deputy commander for support of Multinational Division-Center told a Baghdad news conference there has been a "definite period of progress" in security in Iraq, which he attributed to the addition of 30,000 troops earlier this year. He also cited improvements in Iraq's security forces and more cooperation from Iraqi citizens in reporting insurgent activity, CNN said. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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