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Iraq
Army officer killed, two soldiers wounded in house explosion in Anbar
2017-12-09
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An army officer was killed, while two other soldiers were maimed as a booby-trapped house went kaboom! in western Anbar, a security source said on Friday.

"While security troops were inspecting regions in Rawa, a booby-trapped house in al-Mu’alimin district went kaboom!, leaving a lieutenant general killed and two soldiers severely injured," the source from Anbar Operations Command told BasNews.

"Tens of booby-trapped houses in Rawa have not been identified yet, as 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....
planted hundreds of bombs before the the town was liberated," the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added.

Security troops, according to the source, are keen on securing the civilians fearing further kabooms caused by the war remnants.
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