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| US says airstrikes killed 350 in Ramadi, Iraq, in past week |
| 2015-12-11 |
| [Ynet] U.S. ...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.... fighters holed up in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, an American military front man said Thursday, suggesting the holy warriors lost as much as half of their defending force. Col. Steve Warren, front man for the U.S. military command in Baghdad, told news hounds at the Pentagon that there had been an estimated 600 to 1,000 Islamic State fighters inside Ramadi, which the holy warrior group captured in May. Despite this depletion of Islamic State forces, U.S. officials are reluctant to predict how long it will take to reclaim the city, which is the capital of Anbar province and a key to the Iraqi government's hopes of restoring its borders. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaking separately Thursday, said Iraqi progress in retaking Ramadi has been "disappointingly slow." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Lies more like 35 . Of course, if you count all the civilians around them? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-12-11 15:03 |
| #1 Better step it up. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-12-11 09:59 |