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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Officials Say 23 Soldiers, Sunni Fighters Killed |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [NYTIMES] At least 23 Iraqi soldiers and government-allied bully boyz were killed Sunday in an attack by 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.... Death Eaters in the turbulent Anbar province west of Baghdad, Iraqi military and police officials said. The officials said Sunday's attack, which killed 17 soldiers and six Sunni militia fighters, took place in the rural district of Jaramshah, north of Anbar's picturesque provincial capital, Ramadi. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. They said the IS fighters used suicide kabooms and mortar shells and that chief of army operations in Anbar, Maj-Gen. Qassim al-Dulaimi, was lightly maimed. News of Sunday's attack came two days after up to 50 soldiers were killed by the IS in two ambushes elsewhere in Anbar province, much of which is under IS control. |
| Posted by:Fred |