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Iraqi security official: heavy fight continues in Ramadi
[Rudaw] RAMADI, Anbar Province -- Fighting between Iraqi joint forces and forces of Evil of the so-called 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 has intensified in the Anbar lovely provincial capital Ramadi, a security source told Rudaw. "Iraqi sources are still in heavy fighting against ISIS militias inside the city of Ramadi," a source from Anbar police told Rudaw. "Iraqi forces have been able to fully recapture the central hospital in the Huzzi neighborhood of Ramadi, but the fight is ongoing in the Soufia neighborhood." US-led coalition "ISIS gunnies have booby-trapped almost everything and everywhere, this is the reason why we are slow in our advance," the police source said. In a statement released Monday, coalition forces announced they "have conducted 12 ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Ramadi and Shingal." According to Anbar officials, at least 80 percent of the Sunni-majority province was under the control of ISIS prior to the Iraqi military campaign that was launched April 8. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-04-21 |
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