Report: U.S. issuing I.D. cards in Ramadi

Above: U.S. Marines and Iraqi troops search for insurgent weapons caches in Ramadi in March. Left: Ramadi is the capital of the predominantly Sunni province of Anbar, Iraq's largest.

Ramadi, Apr 25, (VOI) – U.S forces started issuing special identification cards to residents of Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, a security source in Anbar province said on Wednesday.

"U.S. forces started this morning issuing identification cards to residents of Ramadi city after taking local residents’ finger prints and making cornea scans to isolate wanted persons and to prevent anyone from entering the city without an ID," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by phone.

"U.S. marines established centres in the city with special equipment to issue these IDs, which will be given only to Ramadi's residents," he added.

Anbar is a province with a large area. It stretches just west of Baghdad to the borders with Jordan. It is a Sunni province. Its main cities are Falluja, Ramadi. Haditha, Hit, Aana, and Rutbah.

From VOI

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