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France air strikes 'neutralise' 50 IS fighters in Iraq: Army
[Al Ahram] French fighter jets have "neutralised" 50 Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group Death Eaters, along with several vehicles in recent days in Iraq, the army said in a statement on Thursday. The vehicles were destroyed in an unplanned "opportunistic strike" on Wednesday, the statement on the past week's operations said. On January 30, during a reconnaissance mission between djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Kirkuk and Baiji, French pilots spotted a group of around 150 IS combatants positioned against Kurdish forces. Around 50 were "neutralised", the statement said, without clarifying whether they were killed or injured. "On the same day and in the same zone, the aircraft struck a position that was firing on Iraqi forces," the statement added. La Belle France launched Operation Chammal in support of the US-led coalition against IS in September. It has nine Rafale and six Mirage fighters operating in Iraq from bases in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, along with a maritime patrol and a refuelling aircraft. Posted by: Fred 2015-02-06 |
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