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Iraqi troops purge over 80 pct of Anbar desert areas from Islamic State
[Iraq News] Over 80 percent of Anbar desert areas have been purged from 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....
bad boys, a security bigshot in Anbar province was quoted as saying.

Speaking to al-Sabah al-Jadid newspaper on Sunday, Naeem al-Kaoud, the chairman of the Anbar province’s security committee, said, "Security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) purged over 80 percent of desert areas in Anbar province from Islamic State during a military operation there."

"The troops also destroyed several Islamic State hotbeds and remotely detonated four armored vehicles that were used by the bad boy group," he said, adding that 10 more people were tossed in the clink
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
on suspicion of joining Islamic State.

"Although the hotbeds were underground, the troops were able to destroy them after receiving intelligence reports on their locations," Kaoud pointed out that .

"The military operation, backed by the U.S.-led international coalition and the Iraqi Air Force, comes as part of ongoing efforts to eliminate IS Death Eaters on the country’s borders with Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Jordan," he added.


Posted by: Fred 2018-01-15
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