Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) Over 35,000 Iraqi coppers were killed during the three-year war against 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....
, an Iraqi military source said.
"The anti-IS war has left over 35,000 Iraqi coppers killed, and another 35,000 injured," the source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told al-Quds al-Arabi on Monday.
He added that the mentioned casualties included army and police personnel, al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters and members of the Counter Terrorism Service.
"Thousands of Iraqi troops have sustained severe injures, and should travel abroad for surgeries but the government cannot do so due to the austerity policy it has recently adopted."
"The Iraqi government should pay due regard to the victims’ families and help the injured travel abroad to undergo surgeries as soon as possible," the source pointed out.
He highlighted that the Iraqi military has lost billions of dollars in the fight against IS krazed killers, who destroyed many of military equipment and warplanes in the country.
"The last war against Islamic State was one of the most devastating wars in Iraq’s history as it led to the weakening of Iraqi military and destruction of the country’s infrastructure," he stressed.