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IS kills 27 Syria regime fighters near Palmyra
[Al Ahram] 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....
(IS) bully boy group killed 27 Syrian soldiers and allied bully boyz in a series of attacks near Palmyra in the past 24 hours, a monitor said on Friday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS began launching attacks on Syrian regime forces and their allies on Thursday night and that festivities were ongoing.

IS targeted several villages with a majority population from Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
's Alawite clan, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

The Islamist faceless myrmidons were trying to "totally surround" the Tayfur military airport and "cut its supply route," said Abdel Rahman.

The Britannia-based Observatory said the base is located between the cities of Palmyra and Homs in central Syria.


Posted by: Fred 2016-12-24
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