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Iraq
Four IS suicide bombers, 2 officers killed in western Anbar attack
2017-05-16
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Army and police forces killed four 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....
jacket wallahs in western Anbar on Monday, according to a senior army commander.

Alsumaria quoted Qassem al-Mohammadi, commander of al-Jazeera Operations, saying that the bombers were sneaking into the town of Haditha, west of Anbar, but were killed by security forces and tribal fighters. AFP, however, quoted Haditha mayor, Khaled Salman, saying that three of the suicide bombers were trapped inside a house and killed by security, while the fourth went kaboom! killing two security members.

Iraqi troops controlling Haditha have resisted occasional attacks by IS fighters.
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