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Pressures mount on Iraqi government for liberation of Islamic State’s Kirkuk stronghold
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Politicians and locals’ pressures have mounted on the Iraqi government to carry out a security campaign to drive out 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.... Aljournal News website quoted Ahmed Khourshid, a member of Hawija’s mayoral council saying that some tribal representatives had given the Iraqi government a week before they launch an attack on the town. He said the representatives were planning a conference on Tuesday discussing the delayed liberation and means to press the government on speeding up action in that respect. "If the heinous torture of our people by ISIS (Islamic State) Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... Mohammed Tamim, an Iraqi parliament member, said in a statement that people in Hawija were experiencing "a genocide", adding that the town has not seen "any action by security forces". He urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to hasten with the liberation of the town. Islamic State members have held Hawija and some neighboring areas in southwestern Kirkuk since they emerged in 2014 to proclaim an "Islamic Caliphate" in Iraq. Since then, the group has executed hundreds of local civilians and security members for collaborating with security forces or attempting to flee the town. The Iraqi government has said it wa going to target Islamic State havens in Anbar, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Salahuddin and Diyala once it finishes its campaign in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , IS’s largest bastion in Iraq where security troops, backed by a U.S.-led coalition recaptured all but a handful of districts since October. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-16 |
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