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| Iraq |
| A dozen families escape ISIS-held Hawija, while 50 remain missing |
| 2016-01-10 |
| [Rudaw] Dozens of families escaping 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.... (ISIS) in Hawija made it to Peshmerga bases on Friday night, as the whereabouts of 50 other families making the same journey remained unknown, a police source said. Sarhad Qadir, director of police in Kirkuk province, told Rudaw on Saturday that "a dozen families from Hawija and nearby areas escaped Daesh [Islamic State] gunnies through Hamrin Mountains and arrived at Peshmerga bases on the Dubez fronts." But at least 50 families from Hawija and ISIS-controlled villages had reportedly failed to reach the safe zone of Kurdish military bases on Friday. "They might be captured by Daesh [Islamic State] gunnies while trying to escape the area," Qadir said, using the derogatory Arabic name for ISIS. Residents escaping ISIS-controlled areas have been warned by the group not to leave. Violators have been killed. Despite the harsh punishment, people have been trying to escape from Hawija to Kirkuk since last year. Hawija is 55 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk and considered an ISIS stronghold, second only to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which is also controlled by ISIS. |
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