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Iraq
Islamic State infighting leaves many members dead in Kirkuk
2017-07-29
[Iraq News] Several 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....
members were killed and maimed after internal splits ignited infighting among the bandidos turbans in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a security source was quoted saying Friday.

Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that violent armed festivities erupted Friday between IS members from Haija and others positioned in Abbassi region (35 Km southwest of Kirkuk), leaving many dead and injured.

"The festivities took place over disagreements regarding the distribution of ranks and allegiance to Baghdadi," the source said, referring to the group’s supreme leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
Hawija and other neighboring areas in southwest Kirkuk have been under Islamic State control since 2014, when the group emerged to proclaim an Islamic "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.

Occasional reports have spoken about internal divisions, clash of ranks and dissent attempts among Islamic State members as Iraqi troops made victories in their campaigns targeting IS holdouts. There had also been occasional liquidations of IS leaders which some reports linked to disputes among the murderous Moslems.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Aah ! Now there's a social bomb we hadn't considered.

Oh wait ... we invented it , it's called gee-had !
Posted by: Dron   2017-07-29 23:12  

#1  Popcorn?
Posted by: Pappy   2017-07-29 13:14  

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