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Iraq denies Turkish forces in north clashed with ISIL 'recently'
[TODAYSZAMAN] Iraq's joint operations command denied on Saturday that Turkish forces based in northern Iraq had been attacked by 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....
 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or had clashed with the murderous Moslems, refuting a statement by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
"The joint operations command denies there was a terrorist attack on the position of Turkish forces in Bashiqa by the terrorist Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIL) recently," said a news flash on state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, referring to a military base near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
"The joint operations command denies what was relayed in some media outlets from the Turkish president about clashing between the Turkish forces inside Iraqi territory and the terrorist Daesh [Islamic State] whether in Bashiqa or any other areas," another flash said.

Erdogan said on Friday that an attack by ISIL on the military base where Turkish troops are training an Iraqi Sunni militia showed The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's decision to deploy troops there was justified.
The Peshmerga piled on, according to An Nahar:
A colonel in the Kurdish peshmerga forces that control the area, speaking to Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity, also denied the Turkish base had come under attack. He said IS had fired some mortar rounds in the area but not at the base specifically and that the response to that routine attack was handled by the peshmerga.
Posted by: Fred 2016-01-10
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=441542