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Police kill 5 IS militants near strategic mosque in western Mosul
[Iraq News] Iraqi Federal Police command said Tuesday its troops killed five 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....
members in central djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
’s Old City as troops maintain a siege around the area preparing to invade it.

Police chief Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat said in statements that a commando force launched a "surprise attack" near the Hadbaa (leaning) Minaret, the quaint structure at the Grand Nuri Mosque.

He said the troops killed five Death Eaters and seized their combat equipment, adding that police snipers were deployed above buildings surrounding the mosque.

Police forces have been besieging the the IS-held mosque over the past few weeks preparing to storm it. Retaking the mosque will represent a symbolic victory, being the location where Islamic State founder, 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...
, declared the establishment of the group’s rule in Iraq and Syria in 2014.


Posted by: Fred 2017-04-12
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