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| Iraq |
| Iraqi army battles Islamic State militants near Fallujah |
| 2015-04-26 |
| [Rudaw] BAGHDAD -- Fierce festivities erupted northeast of Fallujah on Saturday between the Iraqi army and 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.... Militants launched a complex attack Friday involving a bulldozer packed with explosives against a convoy as it approached an army camp, killing 1st Division commander Brig. Gen. Hassan Abbas Toufan and three staff officers in the Nadhem al-Taqseem region south of Lake Tharthar. Ten soldiers also were killed and a dozen maimed in the attack which was against the nearby battalion headquarters as well, said Lieutenant general Mohammed Khalaf al-Dulaimi of the Anbar operations command. Residents of Fallujah said that Islamic State Troops, including tanks, have been rushed to the area and were fighting Saturday in this rural region dotted with small villages. Last year, the Islamic State overran large sections of the north and west of the country. In recent months, the Iraqi army, backed by the Popular Mobilizations Units of Shiite and Sunni militia fighters, has been gradually retaking territory. After prying the city of Tikrit in the northern Salahuddin province away from the Islamic State group, Iraqi forces have turned their attention to Anbar province, particularly the regional capital of Ramadi that has been besieged by the hard boys. Security forces had been reporting incremental progress this past week, including seizing a key bridge the Fallujah has been firmly under control of the Iraqi militia blames Minister of Defense for ISIS massacre at Thar Thar Area, demands investigation [IraqiNews.com] on Saturday the Iraqi Shia militia, the al-Hashd al-Sha'bi, demanded the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense summon Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi and open an urgent investigation about the "Thar Thar massacre" blaming him for exclusive responsibility. Local Iraqi News media and Arab media reported on Saturday that ISIS executed dozens of Iraqi soldiers and elements of al-Hashd al-Sha'bi after surrounding them in the Thar Thar area north of Fallujah. The information office of the al-Hashd al-Sha'bi said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com that "We demand the Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense to call Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi and open an urgent investigation about the Thar Thar massacre." The statement added that "The Minister of Defense is responsible for the massacre exclusively." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 A bulldozer is not what I would classify as a high speed vehicle: wonder what really happened such that the convoy could not elude it? |
| Posted by: US , Ret. 2015-04-26 10:28 |