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More than 1200 IS militants killed in western Mosul since February
 [Iraq News] More than 1200 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.... bad boys, including snipers and leaders, have been killed since launch of offensives in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Federal Police declared. In a statement on Tuesday, Lt.Gen. Shaker Jawdat said 27 leaders and 214 snipers were killed, while 300 square kilometers were retaken since operations began in western side of Mosul. Federal Police troops, according to Jawdat, killed more than 1000 bad boys, destroyed 865 booby-trapped vehicles and defused 780 landmines since February. He indicated progress by the troops in al-Shifa district, north of the Old City, trying to reach to the Tigris River bank. Earlier on Tuesday, Iraqi troops reported progress and announced recapturing of al-Zanjili district, located north of the Old City, which is home to the Grand Nuri al-Kabeer mosque, from which IS Supreme 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... declared establishing caliphate in 2014. IS enclave has shrunk to two districts along the western banks of the Tigris river -the Old City center and the Medical City. Less than 1000 fighters are believed to be remaining in the Old City, according to commanders from the Iraqi leadership and the allied U.S.-led coalition. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-14 |
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