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Blasts heard at Islamic State headquarters in Kirkuk
[Iraq News] Blasts were heard Sunday at 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.... offices in Kirkuk as the province anticipates military operations to retake areas held by the bad boy group since 2014. A local source told Alsumaria News that violent kabooms were heard at three Islamic State headquarters in central Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk) following strikes by warplanes from the United States-led coalition. "One of the targeted locations was used by the group as a secret meeting room, and had been under tight security," said the source. A week ago, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said operations would launch sooner to recapture Hawija. The announcement came shortly after the JOC said it totally took over Tal Afar, the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Nineveh province. Earlier in July, Iraqi troops, backed by a United States-led coalition, recaptured djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Islamic State’s former capital, after more than eight months of battles. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-11 |
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