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Iraq
In Iraq's Anbar, Election Offers Chance to Settle Scores
2018-04-27
[AnNahar] In the vast desert province of Anbar where 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....
group jihadists first emerged in Iraq, parliamentary elections next month are an opportunity for the predominantly Sunni residents to settle scores.

Many of the new candidates are eager to push out politicians they believe minimised the danger of -- or even sympathised with -- the Sunni Lions of Islam that stormed across the country in the summer of 2014.
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