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| Iraq provided intel on ISIL members entering Turkey |
| 2017-01-18 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Iraq has provided information to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... regarding 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) members that crossed into Turkey or who have been trying to do so, Iraq’s ambassador to Ankara has said. "The available information suggests that a significant number of them have already crossed the border to Turkey. Others are trying to do so. Many of them are from Tel Afar and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... or from other towns around. We have provided this information to Turkey," Ambassador Hashim al-Allawi told the Hurriyet Daily News. "It’s important that the two sides cooperate and share information when it comes to separating genuine citizens that have been forced to leave their hometowns and from ISIS [members] that left towns and villages because of military operations. They could pose a threat to the national security of Turkey, as well as the national security of Iraq," the ambassador stated. It is a serious issue since "we are taking about thousands of DEASH" members, al-Allawi said, using an Arabic abbreviation for ISIS. On the sidelines of a high-level cooperation council meeting on Jan. 7, the heads of intelligence chiefs "have discussed these issues in detail and there is an agreement to cooperate," he said. The issue was also discussed when a Turkish delegation went to Arbil, as part of Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s visit to Iraq earlier in the month, he said. "I was with them. There was a joint meeting between the Turkish delegation and the Iraqi Kurdistan delegation. One of the key issues that two sides discussed was security cooperation," said al-Allawi. Approached by the Daily News, a Turkish official said that during the meetings in Baghdad, two sides agreed to develop bilateral relations, enhance cooperation primarily in the struggle against terror and exchange the names of terrorists. |
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