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Iraq
Iraq Forces Face Tough IS Resistance on Fringes of Fallujah
2016-06-01
[An Nahar] Iraqi forces faced tough resistance from 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group Tuesday as they attempted to enter the center of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
where there were mounting fears for thousands of trapped civilians.
Posted by:Fred

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