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| Iraq |
| Sixteen civilians killed in security-IS battles in western Mosul |
| 2017-03-06 |
| [Iraq News] Sixteen civilians died in fighting between Iraqi government forces and 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.... Death Eaters at one of western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... districts, activist sources said Sunday. Anadolu Agency quoted activist Omar al-Taee as saying that the civilians, mostly women and kiddies, were killed and ten others were maimed in fierce ground battles and shelling over Nabi Sheet district, an area close to central Mosul and the first to be invaded by government troops in their advance towards the Old City. No comment has yet been made of the civilian casualties, but the Iraqi government has reiterated that ensuring civilians’ safety was a top priority in its Mosul campaign. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... several incidents were reported where security operations targeting IS had left civilian casualties, prompting international rights groups to urge parties to battles to heed civilian lives. The U.S. army said Saturday that 21 non-combatants were killed in nine separate strikes by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between November and January, bringing the total of civilians unintentionally killed by the coalition since the start of operations against the bully boy group in 2014 to 220. |
| Posted by:Fred |