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| Suicide Bombings, Clashes Kill 23 in Iraq's Anbar |
| 2015-01-07 |
| [AnNahar] Two suicide kabooms followed by festivities in Iraq's Anbar province west of Baghdad killed 23 security personnel on Tuesday, officers and a doctor said. The jacket wallahs attacked a mosque in the Al-Jubba area of Anbar where anti-jihadist fighters were resting, killing 10, after which festivities broke out that left a further 13 security personnel dead and 21 maimed. Al-Jubba is located near the Al-Asad Air Base -- where American military personnel are deployed -- and the town of Baghdadi, an area that has seen heavy fighting between security forces and 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.... (IS) jihadist group. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but suicide kabooms are a tactic almost exclusively employed by Sunni bully boyz in Iraq, including IS jihadists. IS spearheaded a major offensive in June that overran large areas north and west of Baghdad, including significant parts of Anbar. Tribal fighters have played a key role in keeping the jihadists from gaining further ground in Anbar, and Iraqi forces are now providing training to rustics at Al-Asad. In a meeting on Monday with Suhaib al-Rawi, the newly elected governor of embattled Anbar province, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for a "tribal revolution" against IS, the premier's office said. He emphasized "the importance of the tribes and the sons of the province taking part in liberating their areas from the terrorist organizations". |
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