Interior Ministry official says 3000 displaced families return to Diala native districts

DIALA/IraqiNews.com: An Interior Ministry official on Sunday said about 3000 displaced families returned to their native districts in Diala. “About 3000 forcibly relocated families return to their native district in Diala after imposing security and providing military, social and tribal preparations in the province,”Maj.General Abdelkarim Khalaf, the director of Interior Ministry’s national Command, told IraqiNews.com. The Interior official pointed out Iraqi security forces “thwarted four operations targeting returning families through writing threat graffiti on house walls”. “Scores of al-Qaeda network operatives were captured in Diala and brought to courts for admitting involvement in killing and kidnapping operations against civilians,” he added. Diala, has been the scene of major security operation dubbed as Basheer al-Kheer (Promise of God) to crack down on gunmen and to assert the rule of law in the volatile province of Diala Diala, fed by the Tigris and Diala river tributaries, was once the granary of Iraq and the country’s orange capital with its lush orchards. AM(S) 1