...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) turbans in Iraq have once again begun claiming responsibility for the arson of agricultural land as another hot and dry summer season approaches.
The group's turbans torched crop fields in al-Bou Khiyal, a village in al-Athim area of Diyala province, according to its weekly al-Nabaa newspaper published on messaging app Telegram on Thursday.
Incidences of crop arson across Iraq have been reported by local media outlets in the past week. State media reported the burning of crops in Najaf province on Tuesday, but said it was the result of an electrical fault.
Iraq's government is stepping up plans to protect the country's agricultural land as summer begins, Muhammed Amin Faris, a member of parliament's Agricultural and Water Resources committee told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"This is something that happens every year during summer," Faris said. "The agricultural and water resources committee in Iraqi parliament has already sent a letter to the ministries of interior and defense, as well as to the provinces, urging them to protect the agricultural fields and crops from burning,"
Responsibility for the defense of vulnerable territory ultimately lies with Baghdad, Faris added.
"The defense and interior ministries are responsible for protecting agricultural land in Iraq from ISIS Death Eaters, who are behind the burning of fields."
It is feared that recent incidences of arson could mark the replication of last year's attacks that saw hundreds of thousands of donums of agricultural land catch fire across Iraq over the summer.
In its most deadly attack since its territorial defeat, the group carried out a five-pronged offensive on Iraqi security forces that killed ten members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Saladin on Saturday.
On the same day, turbans killed three federal coppers and maimed two others in an attack on Zaghniya cop shoppe, Diyala province.
The attacks were just two of 64 carried out in Iraq between April 30 and May 6 for which the group grabbed credit via al-Nabaa on Thursday. More than half were conducted in the province of Diyala alone.
In mid-April, then-Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari vowed the government would "ramp up" anti-ISIS efforts to prevent the group from capitalizing on Baghdad's prioritization of its efforts on the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...crisis.
Parliament approved the appointment of new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and his cabinet on Wednesday night, and the premier placed tackling ISIS high on his list of priorities.
More military equipment and weapons are to provided to security forces "in order to face the increased ISIS activities in liberated provinces [once under the group's territorial control], read Kadhimi's agenda published Wednesday.