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| Iranian General Killed by Islamic State in Iraq | |
| 2014-12-29 | |
| [VOA News] Iran's Revolutionary Guard says one of its bigwigs was killed Saturday while fighting 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.... in Iraq. In a statement on its website Sunday, the Guard says that Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi was "martyred" while serving in an advisory role to the Iraqi Army defending Samarra, a city north of Baghdad. Samarra is home to the Al Askari Shrine, one of the most important Shi'ite shrines. Rooters reports that Taqavi was killed by Islamic State sniper fire which also maimed several people who were with him. Taqavi was a veteran of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
...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.... group following the bully boys' summer blitz, in which they captured much of northern and western Iraq, including the second largest city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . But Tehran insists its officers are only providing military advice and training. Those efforts have been led by Maj. Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, commander of the Guard's elite and secretive Quds Force. In recent months pictures have surfaced showing Soleimani meeting with Iraqi commanders on various battlefields. In the years following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, American commanders repeatedly accused the Quds Force of backing Shiite militias implicated in attacks on American troops and Sunni civilians, charges denied by Tehran. | |
| Posted by:Fred |