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U.S. Commander Says Iraqi Forces Retook Third Of Fallujah
[Iraq Sun] A U.S. military commander in Baghdad says Iraqi forces have cleared only a third of Fallujah,... 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... contradicting a claim by Iraq's government that it had liberated the city from the krazed killer 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.... (IS) group. Colonel Christopher Garver, front man for the U.S.-led coalition against IS, said on June 21 that a third of Fallujah had been "cleared" of bully boys. Most of the cleared terrain is in the south of the city and "clearing operations continue outward from the city center," Garver added. Iraqi forces pushed into the center of Fallujah on June 17, retaking a government complex. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said security forces had retaken most of Fallujah, and that remaining IS pockets would be "cleaned out within hours." But there have been persistent festivities between Iraqi forces and IS fighters holed up in neighborhoods along the city's northern edge. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-22 |
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