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| Iraq |
| Air Strike Kills 9 Jihadists North of Baghdad |
| 2014-10-02 |
| [AnNahar] An air strike on a base of the 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.... jihadist group north of Baghdad killed nine forces of Evil Wednesday, a senior Iraqi military intelligence officer said. The officer said a warplane from the international coalition against IS had destroyed a compound used by the organization in Danadish village, near the town of Hawijah. "Nine of them were killed, 11 maimed, five vehicles and 13 cases of ammunition destroyed," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to talk to the press. He said the unit's military leader, whom he named as Abu Abed Ahmed Abdallah al-Dandushi, and 30 other IS fighters had managed to flee after the strike, which was carried out at around 7:00 am (0400 GMT). A local official from the Hawijah district confirmed the information. "The coalition strike was very accurate and destroyed this compound which was being used as a shelter for fighters coming from Raqa (in Syria) before they were dispatched to (the provinces of) Anbar, Salaheddin or Diyala," he said. It was not immediately clear which air force carried out the strike. |
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