...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).
"All our security forces are preoccupied with liberating Fallujah and nearby areas, and imposing pressure on them in Baghdad and other provinces to protect the demonstrations will affect this issue," Haider al-Abadi said when visiting Fallujah Operation Command on Thursday.
Anti-government protesters, mainly supporters of Shiite holy man
Moqtada Tateral-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
, have staged weekly protests on Friday calling for political reform and an end to corruption.
Last Friday, protests turned deadly with three protesters and one journalist killed after security forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas.
Extra security forces are deployed in Baghdad, usually around the Green Zone and other central areas where protesters gather.
Some 22,000 Iraqi joint forces are participating in the battle to retake 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 has been in ISIS hands since January 2014.