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Iraq forces kill dozens of militants near Baghdad: ministry
[DAWN] Iraqi security forces killed more than 40 hard boyz on Thursday in festivities in a town southwest of Storied Baghdad, the interior ministry said in a statement.The firefight in the town of Yusifiyah also left one army officer dead, the statement said, adding that two heavy machineguns, 15 rifles and five grenade launchers were seized, along with other equipment. "Iraqi security forces confronted a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! by Daash gang members to break into a military camp," the statement said, referring to the Arabic abbreviation for the powerful Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... jihadist group. "The security forces ... killed more than 40 terrorist attackers, and the attack resulted in the death of one of our officers when he was confronting these criminal gangs." The festivities in Yusifiyah come after days of fighting in the Zoba and Zaidan areas west of Storied Baghdad, spurring concerns that hard boyz who have for months controlled the town of Fallujah could be looking to open a new front to encroach on the capital. Posted by: Fred 2014-04-04 |
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