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Iraq
Iraq counts on U.S. advisers, mostly out of sight, in war on IS
2017-01-21
Published Thursday. It will be interesting to see how this changes under President Trump.
[AlAhram] When Iraqi forces faced a fierce 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....
(IS) counter-attack last month at a hospital in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
they had stormed without enough troops to hold it, U.S. advisers behind the front lines shepherded them to safety.
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