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| Iran felicitates Iraq on Tikrit liberation | |
| 2015-04-01 | |
| [Iran Press TV] Iran felicitates the Iraqi government and people on the liberation of the strategic northern city of Tikrit from the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday that units of government forces, backed by Shia and Sunni volunteer forces, had managed to retake control of the city. Later in the day, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham congratulated the courageous victory by Iraq's army and popular and tribal forces in Salahuddin province, and the cleansing of the city and other important areas in the province of Takfiri terrorists. "The recent victories are considered a landmark in the process of fighting terrorism in the country and herald the cleansing of Iraq's other areas in near future," she said. "The Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran has placed atop its agenda its effective and unconditional support for the Iraqi government and people in confronting organized and Takfiri terrorism," Afkham noted. In his announcement, Abadi said Iraqi forces had raised the country's national flag over the Salahuddin provincial government headquarters.
...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.... group still controls parts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit, which Baghdad announced had been retaken, the U.S.-led coalition battling the jihadists said Tuesday. "Parts of the city remain under (IS') control and there is still work to be done," spokesperson Major Kim Michelsen told AFP by email. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Don't mean to bust the IGA's or Shiite Militias' victory bubble, but "liberation" from most or the center of Tikrit doth not liberation from "all" of Tikrit maketh. just sayin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-01 22:01 |
| #1 Wait, they did wut? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-04-01 17:42 |