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| Jihadist Attack in Iraq Kills Nine Shiite Militiamen |
| 2014-12-11 |
| [AnNahar] A suicide boom-mobile killed nine Shiite murderous Moslems in an attack near the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday, army and hospital sources said. The suicide kaboomer rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a gathering of Shiite fighters around 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tikrit. An army lieutenant colonel said nine of the Shiite volunteers were killed and 13 other people were maimed, including five civilians. A medical source in Samarra, further south, confirmed the toll. The past few days have seen a surge in violence south of Tikrit and around Samarra between pro-government forces and the 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.... (IS) jihadist group. Joint operations by the army, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Shiite militia groups have, with Iranian backing, squeezed IS fighters out of some of their positions in eastern Iraq. The jihadists, who hold Tikrit and have positions around Samarra, have launched numerous attacks around both cities to maintain pressure on pro-government forces. |
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