Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq, are Sunni groups that have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
U.S. officials said the attack was probably targeting Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq -- Sunni groups who have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
U.S. intelligence agencies believe al Qaeda in Iraq has provided a steady stream of fighters to work with al Nusra.
The councils, also known as Sons of Iraq, are mainly made up of former Sunni insurgents who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
The report also addresses security in Iraq, particularly in Anbar province where some Sunni leaders have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq, said a second official who has been briefed on the classified report but hasn't read it.
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Captured records from a raid near the city of Sinjar, Iraq, indicated that during the 2006-2007 time frame, 8% of al Qaeda in Iraq operatives were Syrians.
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Al-Maliki is in Mosul overseeing a military offensive called Mother of Two Springs against al Qaeda in Iraq.
For years, U.S. special-operations forces worked with CTS against al Qaeda in Iraq.
The U.S., in designating al Nusra as a terrorist organization, called the group an alias for al Qaeda in Iraq.
The U.S. State Department labeled al-Nusra Front a foreign terror organization linked to al Qaeda in Iraq back in December.
Al-Maliki also has promised a major offensive targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, a predominantly Sunni group, in the northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi troops in and near the northern city of Mosul have been fighting al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni militant group.
In December, the U.S. State Department moved to blacklist the rebel group as a foreign terror organization linked to al Qaeda in Iraq.
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American-led coalition troops killed a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader east of Samarra in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.
Iraqi and American forces have been engaged in an offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq in Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital.
Iraqi authorities believe al Qaeda in Iraq is behind the violence.
The U.S. State Department recently listed the Nusra Front, which has close ties to al Qaeda in Iraq and a strong anti-Western ideology, as a terrorist organization.
Earlier this year, an operation that Iraqis led, based on intelligence they developed, resulted in the death of the top two leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The tensions between the Awakening movement, the U.S.-backed tribal groups that fought al Qaeda in Iraq, and the Iraqi Islamic Party had dominated attention in Anbar lately.
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In recent months, the Iraqi military secured an election, killed or captured most of Al Qaeda in Iraq and most of their leaders and made significant inroads against other terrorist groups.
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And in recent months, operations that they led, based on intelligence they developed, killed two key leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq and purged more than 30 other top terrorists from its ranks.
Anbar, once a battleground between al Qaeda in Iraq and U.S. and Iraqi security forces, has seen a drop in violence because many people in the region have joined the anti-insurgent "awakening" movement.
Al-Sadr's threat was issued the same day that a man claiming to be the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq urged his fighters to launch an offensive against U.S. forces in the next few weeks.
The former Green Beret has also been credited with playing a key role in the capture of Saddam Hussein, and he led the group that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Other reports have emerged this year of tensions between Sunni fighters and the Sunni-dominated al Qaeda in Iraq, particularly from Anbar province, long a favored turf for indigenous Sunni insurgents and foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq from Syria.
Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, said the military is much better at thwarting roadside bombs, has developed a better informant network and has been dismantling the al Qaeda in Iraq movement.
The fate of Iraqi security and reconciliation will depend on Sunnis and Shiites cooperating, not only in government but also in efforts to weaken the influence of al Qaeda in Iraq and other extremist organizations, the key findings state.
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Abu Risha is head of the Anbar Awakening Council, a group composed primarily of Sunni Arab fighters who turned on al Qaeda in Iraq, which was made up of predominantly Sunni extremists, in late 2006 and who joined forces with the U.S.-led coalition.
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