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| Iraq TV: Airstrike kills 60 militants in north |
| 2014-08-09 |
| [BUSINESS-STANDARD] An Iraqi army ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... today killed 60 fighters from the krazed killers Islamic State group, the Iraqi state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reported. According to the report, the dawn strike targeted a downtown prison that was being used by Islamic State members as a religious court and detention facility. The claim could not be independently verified and the area was inaccessible to most media. Sunni turbans from the al-Qaeda-breakaway Islamic State group seized Mosul, Iraq's largest second-largest city, in a blitz offensive in June that also captured large swaths of the country's north and west. The myrmidon onslaught plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. The group has since imposed a self-styled caliphate in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, imposing the militants' harsh interpretation of Islamic law. Since then, Iraqi government forces and allied Sunni tribal Lions of Islam have been struggling to dislodge the myrmidons but with no apparent progress. The TV report said 60 Lions of Islam were killed in today's strike and about 300 people who were in the myrmidons' custody were set free. The report cited intelligence officials but provided no further information. A Mosul resident, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... fearing for his own safety, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named over the phone that families of the prisoners rushed to the site to help their kin. "The prison was partly damaged in the |
| Posted by:Fred |