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| Diyala defensiveness and other excitements | |
| 2015-07-19 | |
[Rudaw] Security forces were out in full force across Diyala on Saturday, with dozens of new checkpoints and security protocols immediately implemented in the wake of Friday's attack.
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... mission in Iraq, said Saturday." The Sunni bad boy group has been behind several similar large-scale attacks on civilians or military checkpoints as it seeks to expand its territory. The group currently controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-declared caliphate. In August last year, at least 64 people were killed in an attack on a Sunni mosque in Diyala in what locals believed was a retaliatory attack against Diyala tribes that refused to proclaim loyalty to the 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. The United States has spent billions arming and training the Iraqi military, but it performed poorly last year when Islamic State murderous Moslems swept across western and northern Iraq, routing four divisions. The U.S. and a coalition of nations have been conducting Diyala, which borders Iran, is the only province in Iraq where Iranian jets are known to have conducted Elsewhere in Iraq, a roadside kaboom on a commercial street in Baghdad's Dora district Saturday killed four people and maimed seven. North of Baghdad, a roadside kaboom on a commercial street in al-Rashidiya killed three people and maimed 11. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently... reports emerged Saturday that the Islamic State group used projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria on several occasions last month. Joint, on-site investigations by two U.K.-based organizations -- Conflict Armament Research (CAR) and Sahan Research -- concluded that IS forces used chemical agents to attack Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on June 21, 22 and 28. In the Syria attacks, IS murderous Moslems launched 17 artillery projectiles against YPG forces stationed to the south of the village of Tell Brak in Hassakeh province. The projectiles released a chemical agent which induced in some cases loss of consciousness and temporary, localized paralysis. Twelve YPG personnel were hospitalized. Another seven projectiles were also launched into civilian residential areas in Hassakeh. In the Iraq attack, IS forces fired a projectile containing a liquid chemical agent at a peshmerga checkpoint near the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Dam, triggering symptoms among the Iraqi forces that included headaches, nausea and light burns to the skin. The findings on the attacks in Syria were confirmed by an YPG statement issued Saturday. The type of chemical used is not known. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported an apparent IS chemical attack on June 28. There have been several allegations that the Islamic State group has used chlorine previously in both Iraq and Syria. The Islamic State group, which controls a third of Syria and Iraq in its self-declared caliphate, has not commented on the claims. | |
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