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Iraq
ISIS has arrested 500 civilians in Anbar since May
2015-11-06
[Rudaw] 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....
(ISIS) has locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
at least 500 civilians from Iraq's Anbar province since taking over its capital, Ramadi, in mid-May, a provincial official said Thursday.

"Since ISIS captured most of Anbar, including Ramadi and Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
some 500 civilians were arrested and jugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in the group's secret prisons," said Ali Dauod, head of the Khalidiya distrcit council in Anbar.

He added that over the past few days ISIS has carried out torture and executions of civilians, including death by hanging, beheading and being burnt alive.

Daoud said ISIS was also using some of the detainees as human shields against an expected assault by Iraqi forces.

"Iraqi forces insist they would free the detainees and secure their safety," once they move into Ramadi, Daoud said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
the Baghdad-based front man for the US-led Operation Inherent Resolve last week praised Iraqi efforts toward the recapture of ISIS-held Ramadi, while declining to say when the quiet provincial capital would be liberated.

"This is a tough fight. There's a lot of obstacles. There's a determined, dug-in enemy," Colonel Steven Warren told news hounds.
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