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Iraq anti-terrorism troops kill 10 IS militants, capture 5 others in Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces killed on Wednesday 10 Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
snuffies and arrested five others during a counter-terrorism operation in Anbar province.

In a statement carried by Al Ahd News website, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service said that its troops have carried out a military operation based on intelligence information to arrest IS snuffies in Ar Rutbah and Wadi Hauran districts in Anbar.

The operation, according to the statement, "resulted in the killing of 10 Islamic State krazed killers, beside five arrests."
Rudaw adds:
"As the First Tactical Unit from the Counter-Terrorism Service, and in coordination with the [US-led] coalition's airpower, we carried out [operations] in Wadi Hauran desert areas in Rutba, western Anbar," read a statement from the ICTS on Tuesday.

Wadi Hauran is on the outskirts of the town of Rutba, 420 kilometers from Baghdad.

The overnight operation was launched following the collection of "accurate intelligence," and used "multiple air strikes" to "track down the remnants of the ISIS terrorist gangs," the statement added.

Two of the ten gunnies killed were wearing boom belts, and several hideouts were destroyed, the statement detailed.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-15
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