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Iraq
Iraqi troops seize 70 explosive belts within Islamic State hotbed in Tikrit
2017-12-29
Tikrit (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Iraqi troops have seized 70 boom belts within an 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....
hotbed at a village in Tikrit city, a police front man was quoted as saying.

Speaking to Alghad Press on Thursday, Spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry Brigadier General Saad Maan said, "Acting upon accurate intelligence reports, Iraqi troops discovered an Islamic State hideout at Umm al Wohoosh village in northwestern Tikrit."

"The shelter included 70 boom belts, 45 bombs and 120 sticky bombs," Maan added.
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