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ISIS rallies new recruits in Tal Afar as Iraqi forces advance in Mosul
[ALMASDARNEWS] One day after ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... released a rare audio statement to his followers, a batch of new 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.... recruits signed up to defend the caliphate's collapsing frontline at Tal Afar and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Among the volunteers were both children and elderly, a recruitment scenario somewhat similar to that of the collapsing Third Reich in 1945. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy!he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) advanced south of Tal Afar, liberating four new villages; Ghazil al Sufla, Ghazil al Ulya, Atasa, and al-Rikatof. During festivities in the aforementioned villages, 49 ISIS fighters were killed while five suicide trucks and a bus bomb were destroyed. The PMU did not specify its own casualties. The PMU also found ISIS-manufactured decoy Humvees intended to fool the Iraqi Air Force. On the other hand, Amaq Agency claimed a minefield destroyed at least one Iraqi armored vehicle at the al-Adayah crossroads southwest of Mosul. On Friday evening, the Iraqi Army's Federal Police Force also entered the large town of Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul, according to Major General Thamer al-Husseini. Furthermore, the Iraqi Army's special forces and Nineveh Protection Units (Assyrian paramilitary) are pushing hard to infiltrate the Islamic State's second line of defence in the eastern suburbs of Mosul city. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-05 |
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