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Iraq
IS seize civilian vehicles in Tal Afar to build fortifications
2017-06-21
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) 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....
holy warriors have forcibly confiscated tens of civilian-owned vehicles to build fortifications in the town of Tal Afar, west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a local source said Tuesday.

The source told Alsumaria News that the cars blocked the streets of the town, forming walls against possible offensives.

Islamic State have been holding Tal Afar since 2014, with the area becoming one of its most significant bastions in Nineveh province.

So far, offensives by the pro-government Popular Mobilization have isolated the town from the Syrian borders and from Mosul, and recaptured a main military base there.
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