Several members of the puppet police in the Kubaysah area near Hit, Al-Anbar Province, about 170km northwest of Baghdad announced that they were quitting the puppet force and handed their weapons over to the Iraqi Mujahideen.
Eyewitnesses said that declarations by about 35 resigning puppet policemen were posted on the walls of mosques on Sunday, Ocrober 29, 2006, The former puppet policemen said in their statements that they were no longer going to work for the US occupation in response to what they called the "repentance amnesty" that the Mujahideen declared recently.
Dozens of puppet policemen resigned en masse after receiving threats at their homes in recent days. In all more than 130 puppet policemen have resigned, issuing "repentance papers" that were posted on mosques in the city.
Puppet police in the cities of al-Fallujah and Samarra' have already resigned in large numbers in response to the Iraqi Mujahideen, the Al Basrah reported.
KC
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