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What does CLC stand for?

Concerned Local Citizens (US DoD)


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The Sons of Iraq, formerly known as Concerned Local Citizens, are primarily made up of Sunni civilians, who patrol the cities and provide information about insurgent activities and weapons caches to Iraqi and coalition forces.
The significant growth in the past year of "Awakening" anti-Qaeda fronts - termed concerned local citizens by the US military - combined with increased capabilities of the Iraqi and US militaries was impacting on Al Qaeda's ability to plan operations, according to the intelligence chiefs.
But these volunteers, known collectively as the Sons of Iraq or the Concerned Local Citizens, have been targeted repeatedly by insurgents using suicide bombers to attack their checkpoints.
The Sunni Arab militias are known by a variety of names: the Iraqi Security Volunteers (ISVs), neighborhood watch groups, Concerned Local Citizens, Critical Infrastructure Security.
But in recent weeks scores of the Sunni guardsmen, known variously as Concerned Local Citizens, Awakening Councils and the Sons of Iraq, have been killed in clashes with al-Qaeda fighters and Shiite militia groups.
He said followers of Saddam Hussein's Baath party and al-Qaida have been ordered to infiltrate the groups, known as awakening councils as well as concerned local citizens.
Al-Qaida, he said, "attach enormous importance to these Concerned Local Citizens groups, these tribes that have turned against them, and to the general sense that Sunni Arab communities have rejected them more and more around Iraq.
Al-Qaeda attaches "enormous importance to these Concerned Local Citizens groups, these tribes that have turned against them, and to the general sense that Sunni Arab communities have rejected them more and more around Iraq," Petraeus told a group of Western journalists.

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