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Iraq
Mosul strikes are start of new effort against Islamic State
2015-01-25
[Ynet] An uptick in Arclight airstrikes in northern Iraq this past week marks the beginning of a broader effort to disrupt 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....
 supply lines ahead of an expected operation later this year to take back the city from turbans, US military officials said Friday.

Coalition Arclight airstrikes have pounded at least two dozen locations around djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, destroying dozens of vehicles, buildings, fighting positions and holy warrior units.

The Arclight airstrikes, said one senior military official, are the start of a new phase, and military leaders are watching to see how Islamic State gunnies respond as their supply and communications lines dry up.
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