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| Iraq | |
| Hashd al-Shaabi claim to have 100,000 fighters | |
| 2015-06-16 | |
...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.... , announced Moein al-Kazemi, a member of the group's leadership committee. That's nothin'. Saddam had six million "volunteers." "Volunteers who joined the group are mostly students and workers. They followed the Shiite leader's public call to fight ISIS and they joined," he said. According to Kazemi, Iraqi police and Hashd al-Shaabi commanders are currently training the new arrivals prior to sending them to the front line. The Hashd al-Shaabi rose up last year after a call from Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shiite holy man in Iraq, when ISIS fighters overran much of the country's western territory. The militias, some of which have known ties to Iran, took the lead in the liberation of Tikrit earlier this year amid subsequent allegations the fighters marginalized Sunni residents of the area. | |
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