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| UK to Send More Troops to Iraq to Bolster Anti-IS Fight |
| 2017-09-02 |
| [AnNahar] Britannia will send a small contingent of expert troops to Iraq to help coalition forces drive out 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.... jihadists, Defense Minister Michael Fallon has said. "We are stepping up our contribution to the fight against ISIS (IS) and fulfilling Britannia's role as a key player in the global coalition," Fallon said in a statement. "These extra troops will help support operations to bring the defeat of ISIS a step closer." The 44 Royal Engineers are to be deployed for six months at the al-Asad airbase in Anbar Province, in western Iraq, to build infrastructure including accommodation and offices. This brings the number of British troops at the airbase to more than 300 and the total in Iraq to around 600. The airbase also houses hundreds of U.S. advisers as well as Iraqi and Danish troops. |
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