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Iraq Forces Look to Tighten Noose around Tikrit
[AnNahar] The Iraqi army said Wednesday that its strategy for retaking the jihadist stronghold of Tikrit is to surround the city before launching an assault.
A nice practice for doing the same to Mosul.
On Monday, the Iraqi security forces and a variety of allied fighting units launched the biggest ground operation yet against the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group in Iraq.

Posted by: trailing wife 2015-03-05
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