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Iraq
U.S.-led strikes hit ISIS-held explosives plant near Kirkuk, civilian casualties reported
2015-06-07
[ARA] The U.S.-led international coalition's warplanes hit the town of Hawija, west of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, causing the destruction of a major plant for explosives belonging to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS/ISIS), locals reported on Saturday.

Local sources told ARA News that the plant, which was destroyed by air strikes, was one of the largest IS plants in the region.

"The attack led to a huge kaboom in the plant, which was composed of several clustering houses close to each other," an Iraqi media activist said on the condition of anonymity.

"Hawija attack led to destruction in Awan district, the municipality building, the industrial district and the neighborhoods of Rey and Baitara," the source told ARA News.

The destruction caused by the Arclight airstrikes also reached the Tanak and "8 Shibat" districts. An estimated one square kilometer of distraction was the result of Saturday's strikes and the associated kabooms in the IS-held plant.

In the meantime, sources in the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
in Nineveh province, northwestern Iraq, reported that the Islamic State formed a special committee to "compensate" the victims of the coalition's attacks in the Rifai district, as well as to guarantee the return of power supply to all neighborhoods of the city.

Noteworthy, the Rifai district of Mosul was exposed to kabooms after the coalition's strikes hit an IS-held plant there, which caused the death of dozens of civilians.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Don't house your civilians in an arms factory and they won't get hurt. Simple, no?
Posted by: AlanC   2015-06-07 08:21  

#2  Kindergarten, OS, kindergarten.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-07 01:46  

#1  Lemme guess, it was claimed as a baby duck factory by the Arab press?
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-06-07 01:04  

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