Hundreds of ISIS fighters, suicide bombers holed up in Tikrit district
[RUDAW.NET] As Iraqi security forces fortify their control of Tikrit, they still wait for the battle with 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....
over a remaining district where hundreds of ISIS fighters are still holed up.
"In Tikrit, the Qadisiya area is the only place yet to be liberated from ISIS," observed Jamil al-Ghazali, a Rudaw news hound on the scene. "There are checkpoints at the city's main entry ways," he said.
"The situation is stabilized. Iraqi security forces are seen all around the city and there are checkpoints to protect visitors. Meanwhile,
...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves...
Iraqi forces are seen moving in nearby towns and districts."
There has been no exchange of fire between Iraqi forces and murderous Moslems hiding in Qadisiya.
But Iraqi forces say they fear reports that an estimated 500 ISIS suicide kaboomers are holed up in the district, complicating the task of entirely liberating the city of ISIS.
Iraqi forces backed by US-led Arclight airstrikes liberated Tikrit in Salahadin province from ISIS on Wednesday, after nearly a 10-month occupation.
Posted by: Fred 2015-04-06 |