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Iraqi Forces Free Prisoners from Underground ISIL Jail
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iraqi forces freed a large number of prisoners from an underground jail run by 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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group during a battle to retake a western town from the takfiris, officials said on Saturday. Security forces have recaptured parts of Heet, which was one of the largest population centers in Anbar province still held by ISIL, but other areas remain under jihadist control. "During their advance to liberate and clear the town of Heet from the (ISIL) organization, security forces were able to discover a large prison," police Colonel Fadhel al-Nimrawi. "The prison was underground" and held 1,500 people, who were freed by security forces, Nimrawi said. Malallah al-Obeidi, a local official in Anbar, also put the number of freed prisoners at around 1,500, saying most of them were civilians. Muhannad al-Dulaimi, the official responsible for the Heet area, also confirmed the discovery of a "large prison" in the town, but did not say how many people it held. Iraq began a broad offensive to retake Heet in mid-March, but a significant number of troops were pulled out of Anbar to protect protesters in Baghdad, which may have delayed the drive.
[AnNahar] Iraqi officials Sunday denied reports that security forces freed prisoners from an Islamic State group jail in the country's west, but some said civilians had been evacuated from the area. Officials from Iraq's Anbar province said the previous day that security forces discovered a large underground IS prison in the town of Heet, which they are battling to retake from the jihadists, and freed people held inside. Major General Ali Ibrahim Daboun, the army commander responsible for the area, said that no prison was found, but that civilians had been "evacuated" from Heet. Raja Barakat, a member of the Anbar province security committee, gave a similar account. And Malallah al-Obeidi, a local Anbar official, said that while initial information indicated that security forces freed prisoners, they turned out to be families who were evacuated. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-04 |
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