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Iraq
Shiite militia claims ISIS leader killed near Fallujah
2015-05-27
[Rudaw] Shiite militias fighting near the Fallujah district of Garma in Anbar province claim they killed an ISIS leader and five of his deputies.
Emir is such a usefully vague kind of word. As far as I can tell, it means the leader of anything from a patrol to the caliph himself. Most of them aren't caliphs, of course.
"In the fight against ISIS in the sub-district of Garma east of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
 Hatam Shahada, known as Abu Mosab Muhajir, was killed along with 20 other snuffies and two of the killed snuffies hold foreign IDs," Brigadier General Mahmoud Marzi, a Hashd al-Shaabi commander, told news agencies on Tuesday.

Also called Popular Mobilization Units or PMUs, the Hashd al-Shaabi are volunteer Shiite militias who have sworn to fight the Sunni ISIS.

Marzi added that Iraqi joint forces consisting of the Hashd al-Shaabi, the Badr Organization and Sunni tribal regiments have been locked in an intense battle with ISIS in Garma.

Sunni-majority Fallujah, 69 kilometers west of Baghdad, has been under ISIS control since last summer. The city has been besieged by the Iraqi Army, which has been continuously shelling the city to weaken the myrmidons.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Partition Baghdad into three pieces, sort of like Berlin, with an access road to Kurdistan.

What else?
Posted by: Bobby   2015-05-27 14:00  

#4  The question arises, if Iraq is partitioned, what to do with Baghdad? Internationalize it?
Posted by: Gomez Uneager8139   2015-05-27 09:36  

#3  Day, dollar, SPOD
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-27 02:02  

#2  We should cut Iraq into three pieces, Shia, Sunni, and Kurd.

Since they cannot play nice together the best thing to do is to separate them.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2015-05-27 01:23  

#1  There are plenty to replace him
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-27 00:46  

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