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Islamic State has rest houses with five-star services, southwest of Kirkuk
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) An official from Kirkuk province has said none of the displaced families has returned to Hawija town, southwest of the province, as the combing operations are still ongoing."We did not record return of any family to Hawija as the operations to purge the town from explosives are still ongoing by the security troops," Ahmed Khorshid, member of the town’s municipal council, told AlSumaria News on Friday. "The huge amount of explosives, planted by 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.... in Hawija, delayed the combing in Hawija," he said. ’Defense teams as well as security troops managed to remove more than 5,000 bombs." The myrmidon group, according to Khorshid, "still owns rest houses with five-star services. These rest houses are in Wadi Zgheitoun, Wadi abul Khanager between al-Riyad and al-Rashad. They are still used by the group. They have all kinds of food commodities and electricity generators." In November, Khorshid described Hawija as the city of ghosts for being empty of its residents, saying that IS gunnies are still hiding at rest houses in the desert regions. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-23 |
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