Husaybah
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Husaybah (Arabic: حسيبة) is an Iraqi city situated along the Euphrates River on the Syrian border. Traditionally housing as many as 300,000, it currently has only approximately 15,000 residents, chiefly Sunnis.
This city in the Al Anbar region of Iraq is currently patrolled by United States Marines, and is the location of Camp Gannon, a US military base, as well as several battle positions.
Following Operation Steel Curtain, in which US Marines and Iraqi Army units swept the city of insurgents, the streets were secured by a combination of Iraqi Army and Marine forces.
The December elections were the first free elections held in the city since before the beginning of Saddam Hussein's regime, and boasted a voter turnout (both male and female) of over 70 percent.[citation needed]
Following the election security conditions steadily declined and the insurgent presence increased, by mid 2006 the marines in Husaybah along with ones in the rest of the Anbar Governate were transferred to Baghdad in an attempt to suppress the increasing violence in the capital. By September 2006 Husaybah along with most of the Al Anbar Governorate was reported to be under Insurgent control.[1][2] The current Government of the city is composed of insurgents allied with the Mujahideen Shura Council.[3]
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- ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15513332/site/newsweek/ 11/6, 2006, Newsweek , The Geography of War
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001204.html?nav=rss_email/components Washington Post, 9/11, 2006 Situation Called Dire in West Iraq
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701287.html 11/28, 2006 Washington Post, Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker
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