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| Iraq |
| IS Claims Suicide Attack on Iraq Police that Killed 37 |
| 2015-06-04 |
| [AnNahar] 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.... jihadist group has claimed a suicide kaboom on an Iraqi police base north of Baghdad that killed at least 37 people. A Somali man detonated an explosives-rigged armoured vehicle inside the base, while a Tajik and a Syrian blew up a Humvee and a truck in the area, IS said in an online statement. The Monday attack -- which officers said also maimed more than 30 people -- was against a federal police base between Samarra and Tharthar lake. The area is being used in a military operation aimed at cutting off IS's supply lines in Anbar, a province west of Baghdad where the jihadists overran the city of Ramadi last month. IS fighters have over the past year seized a formidable arsenal of military vehicles, weapons and ammunition from retreating Iraqi forces as they swept through much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland. Iraqi security forces have in recent days successfully repelled several suicide attacks involving explosives-laden vehicles thanks to anti-tank systems, but not all forces have access to those weapons. The attack on the police base came a day before members of the U.S.-led coalition carrying out air raids against IS and providing training and weapons to Iraqi forces held talks in Gay Paree on a string of major battlefield gains by the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. |
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