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| US Special Forces join Iraqi troops to flush out remaining ISIS from Ramadi | |
| 2016-01-23 | |
...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.... (ISIS) bully boyz in the area of Hussaibiyah in eastern Ramadi, said an Anbar provincial official on Friday. "A special US force has arrived at the Ayn al-Asad Airbase in western Anbar to do their part in retaking areas still held by ISIS," Ibrahim Fahdawi, head of Khalidiya district security committee told Rudaw. The force's main duty is to protect Iraq's borders with Syria and Jordan from ISIS krazed killer infiltration, Fahdawi explained. Iraqi troops retook Ramadi from ISIS in late December but have been since held down by bully boyz in Hussaibiyah and other districts. Fahdawi believes that the US force will support the Iraqi soldiers and prevent ISIS from sending reinforcements to retake Rawa, Qaim and Ana in western Anbar. Days after Iraqi army declared Ramadi free from ISIS control, US Army Captain Chance McCrew told news hounds in Baghdad there were still several hundred bully boyz inside the city in the direction of Fallujah. A Shiite militia official told Rudaw that booby traps and bombs together with the area's population density are the reason for the army's slow progress against the remaining bully boyz in the area. "Military operation in Ramadi are ongoing... This front is complex due to population density," said Brig. Ahmed Al Bailawi, an official from the Shiite militia group of Hashd al-Shaabi, adding that ISIS has "booby trapped all houses and alleys of the area." "Bomb disposal teams have begun defusing bombs in 85 percent of the region," Al Bailawi said. "Over the past three days, our forces have arrived at a main road close to the southern Hussaibiyah center." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Love the title. US flushing the Iraqi/ISIS mess... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-01-23 17:40 |