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Iraq
What they're reporting in Iraq about Tikrit
2015-03-14
Zamili: 80% Tikrit liberated, call for arming the tribesmen

[IraqiNews.com] The head of the parliament's security and defense committee , Hakim Al-Zamili, emphasized that Tikrit town has been liberated almost 80%, "asking for arming the rustics to hold the liberated districts."

Zamili accompanied the Defense Minister, Khalid Al-Obaidi visited the Salah-il-Din command operation in Tikrit to meet its leaders and also the leaders of the volunteers of popular mobilization.

Zamili said "The security forces supported by the volunteers and the rustics liberated most of the districts in Salah-il-Din almost 80%," noting that "Zamili referred that "his committee asked the Defense Ministry for arming the rustics to hold the liberated districts and those that will be liberated later."

"The security forces and the volunteers will go to Baiji and other districts to clear them from the turbans of ISIL," he concluded.

2 ISIL Saudis killed in Tikrit

[IraqiNews.com] A source told IraqiNews.com that "Two gunnies 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Levant from 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...
have been killed by the Security Forces in Tikrit town, centre of Salah-il-Din."

Suicide bomber killed eastern Tikrit

[IraqiNews.com] A group of rustics succeeded to kill a jacket wallah who was intending to detonate his explosive vest inside the guests room (Mudheef) of Al-Jibara tribe in Alam district of eastern Tikrit city, the center of Salah-il-Din province.

Security source reported to IraqiNews.com "The Armed group of Martyr Umaya Jibara managed to kill a suicide bomber who was wearing an explosive vest before detonating his explosives near the guests room of the tribe in Alam district."

"The jacket wallah was hiding at a farm close to the guests room of the tribe," the source added, noting "It is the second incident of the same type that took place in Alam district during the last two days."
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