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Iraq
Multiple ISIS suicide attacks in Iraq's Anbar kill 17 troops
2015-05-28
[Rudaw] 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....
 gunnies unleashed a wave of suicide kabooms targeting the Iraqi army in western Anbar province, killing at least 17 troops in a major blow to government efforts to dislodge the bully boyz from the sprawling Sunni heartland, an Iraqi military front man said Wednesday.

The attacks came just hours after the Iraqi government announced the start of a wide-scale operation to recapture areas under the control of the IS group in Anbar.

Brig. Gen Saad Maan Ibrahim, the front man for the Joint Military Command, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Wednesday that the attacks took place outside the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah late the previous night.

The bully boyz struck near a water control station and a lock system on a canal between Lake Tharthar and the Euphrates River where army forces have been deployed for the Anbar offensive, he said.

Ibrahim added that the Islamic State gunnies used a sandstorm that engulfed most of Iraq on Tuesday night to launch the deadly wave of bombings.
They do like attacking during sandstorms...
He said it was not clear how many suicide attackers were involved in the bombings but they hit the military from multiple directions.
And they do like multiple jacket wallahs to start the attack, whether on foot or in vehicles.
Last month, the water station fell into the hands of IS bully boyz -- following attacks that also included multiple suicide kabooms and that killed a general commanding the 1st Division and a dozen other officers and soldiers.

Iraqi government forces recaptured the station a few days later.

The Iraqi operation to retake Anbar, which is said to be backed by Shiite militias and Sunni pro-government fighters, is deemed critical in regaining momentum in the fight against the Islamic State.
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