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US army: ISIS militants still in Ramadi
[RUDAW.NET] Several hundred 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.... (ISIS) Lions of Islam are still believed to be in Ramadi days after the Iraqi army declared it free from the group's control. U.S. Army Captain Chance McCraw told news hounds in Baghdad there are Lions of Islam inside the city and in the direction of Fallujah. "Within what we call central Ramadi they estimate still up to 400 Daesh [Islamic State] [ISIS] members and then once you go east of that toward Fallujah you've got about 300 out there in that direction," U.S. Army Captain Chance McCraw was quoted by Rooters. The Iraqi army reached the center of Ramadi on Monday and raised the national flag on top of the government compound. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi hailed the liberation of Ramadi as a fatal blow to ISIS and said 2016 would be the year of total victory over the group. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-02 |
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