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| ISIL Terrorists Pull out of Town in Iraq’s Anbar | |
| 2016-03-14 | |
| [ALMANAR.LB] The so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group on Sunday pulled its turbans out of Rutba, a desert town in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, an army general and the mayor said. "Daesh [Islamic State] [Arabic acronym of ISIL] has completely pulled out of Rutba and gone towards Al-Qaim," a major general said, referring to a takfiri bastion on the border with Syria, further north in Anbar. "Daesh [Islamic State]'s gunnies started pulling out last night and completed their withdrawal this morning," the senior officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . "Rutba is now free of Daesh [Islamic State]." The mayor of the isolated town, which lies about 390 kilometers (245 miles) west of Baghdad on the road to Jordan, confirmed that ISIL had withdrawn. After launching a final push against ISIL in the picturesque provincial capital Ramadi late last year, Iraq's security forces established full control over the city last month. They have since been securing areas east of Ramadi, further isolating the takfiri stronghold of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... which lies only 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad. ISIS pulls most of its fighters from Iraqi town Hit [AlAhram] The Islamic State group has pulled most of its fighters out of Hit, a large town in western Iraq on which security forces were advancing, a military front man says on Sunday. "The majority of Daesh [Islamic State] (IS) fighters in Hit, Rutba and Kubaysa have fled through the desert to other regions," Yahya Rasool, Iraq’s top security front man, tells AFP. Kubaysa is a smaller town that lies west of Hit while Rutba is a desert town on the road to Jordan. "There is an operation to hunt them down with Iraqi aircraft," says Rasool, who is the front man for the Joint Operations Command coordinating the fight against IS in Iraq. "Hit is surrounded by Iraqi forces from the south and north," he says. "Thousands of families have fled the area to meet our forces." Raja Barakat, a member of Anbar provincial council's security committee, confirmed the Rutba pullout and said IS group had also been pulling some of its forces from Hit. "It was not just from Rutba but also from Hit after their fighters shaved their beards to slip out," he said.
He said that the IS group fighters who withdrew from Hit moved through the desert towards Baiji, to the northeast, and towards Al-Qaim, to the northwest. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Al-Qaim, referring to a bastion on the border with Syria Where my junior son spent six months with the Marines in 2004-2005. The times they are a'changin'. Hope 'n' changin', that is. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-03-14 13:23 |