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Iraq
Iraq forces brace to flush out ISIL dregs from Tikrit
2015-03-15
[Iran Press TV] The Iraqi Army, backed by Shia and Sunni volunteers, is preparing for the full liberation of the north-central city of Tikrit from the ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
s' clutches.

Iraqi commanders have been plotting a strategy for siphoning out the remaining ISIL faceless myrmidons from the city, located 140 kilometers northwest of Baghdad.

Karim al-Nuri, a top leader of the Badr militia and front man of the volunteer Popular Mobilization units, said it would take no more than "72 hours" to liberate Tikrit from the ISIL, which seized it last summer. He said "their number is now 60 to 70".

The city fell into the hands of the ISIL last summer. Its liberation will pave the way for retaking the terrorists' northern hub, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
.

'70% of the city freed'

Khalid Jassam, the head of the security committee of Tikrit Provincial Council has told the Erbil-based BasNews outlet that the Iraqi forces and Shia militias currently controll 70 percent of the Sunni-majority city.
Posted by:Fred

#1  no more than "72 hours" to liberate Tikrit
Only took a fraction of a second to liberate Hiroshima.
Posted by: Glenmore   2015-03-15 08:06  

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