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Official claims Iraqi army recaptures areas of Baiji
[Rudaw] Iraqi joint forces have recaptured several villages and areas in the town of Baiji from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , Baiji Mayor Mohammed Mahmood told Rudaw on Saturday. "The Iraqi army, police, counterterror forces and Hashd al-Shaabi have launched a multi-pronged massive assault on the Islamic State faceless myrmidons in the villages of Albu Hajab, Hawi and Albu Toma in southern Baiji," he said. "Fierce festivities are underway and very soon villages in the areas will be cleared of the remaining ISIS elements." "The western Baiji prong has been held by Iraqi security forces since yesterday, the prong before was an ISIS corridor being used for transferring heavy weapons, faceless myrmidons and ammunition inside Baiji," he said. Friday Iraqi joint forces captured a strategic area in Baiji and entered the city's key oil refinery where fighting has raged for most of the last two months, the Baghdad government announced. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-24 |
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