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| Palestinians Push Back IS in Damascus Camp |
| 2015-04-03 |
| [AnNahar] Paleostinian fighters and Syrian rebels retook control Thursday of large parts of a refugee camp in Damascus that had been seized by 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.... group jihadists, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a number of gangs in the Yarmuk camp in south Damascus "were able to regain control over all of the areas that IS had taken over." The jihadists had overrun the camp on Wednesday, raising fears for thousands of civilians inside and giving IS a potential beachhead inside Syria's capital. But armed Paleostinian groups, backed by local rebels, launched a fightback later in the day. "Syrian rebel groups entered the camp and helped the Paleostinians push back IS in fierce festivities," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Observatory. Anwar Abdel Hadi, director of political affairs for the Paleostine Liberation Organisation in Damascus, said IS had been pushed "to the periphery" of the camp. He said Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, a group loyal to Paleostinian movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, had clashed with IS overnight. Six people were killed and 17 injured, he said, but he could not provide details on the toll. The Britannia-based Observatory said IS still controlled "some areas" in the camp and put the corpse count at three. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Of course, the dead and wounded were all women and children. The "fighters" were cowering behind them. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-04-03 08:19 |
| #2 These are Paleos and Arabs we're talking about hear, Lord Garth, being reported on by the media. Given the former I'm surprised they hit that many; given the latter I'm surprised they counted that high. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-04-03 07:42 |
| #1 two or three days of heavy fighting involving substantial numbers of fighters and only 6 fatalities? |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-04-03 04:17 |