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| Iraq |
| Kirkuk police detain dozens suspected in Dubis attack |
| 2015-11-07 |
| [Rudaw] Kirkuk police announced Friday they had rounded up 25 people suspected of a hand in this week's suicide kaboom on the mayor's office and a cop shoppe in Dubis. Kirkuk police chief Gen. Sarhad Qadir told Rudaw the suspects and some weapons were seized in raids early Friday on several neighborhoods of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... after tip offs that supporters of 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 (ISIS) were holed out there. "At this stage we cannot say that all those detained today are members of bully boy groups, but we will certainly take every measure necessary to ensure public safety," Qadir said. He added that at least three weapons were confiscated in the raids, which lasted several hours. Four coppers were killed and 15 security forces were maimed in Tuesday's attack. Police said nine jacket wallahs and one ISIS bully boy were also killed in the assault. Since 2003, Kurdish security forces, known as Asayish,have been patrolling the disputed oil city of Kirkuk which is home to over one million people, with more than half of them Kurds and the other half Turkmen and Sunni Arabs. Local ISIS collaborators in the nearby villages have been shelling Peshmarga positions who entered the province after the Iraqi army abandoned the area following an ISIS offensive in June last year. |
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