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| India Begins Search for Missing Citizens after Mosul Victory |
| 2017-07-11 |
| [AnNahar] India on Monday announced it will send a top minister to Iraq in an effort locate dozens of its missing citizens after djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... was all but recaptured from 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.... group. Thirty-nine Indian laborers have been missing, believed taken hostage by IS, since the holy warrior outfit overran Iraq's second largest city in 2014. There has been no word on their fate since but New Delhi has insisted that without information otherwise, the Indian construction workers are still considered alive. An Indian foreign ministry front man said all possible avenues for locating the missing nationals would be explored now that the city had been liberated by Iraqi forces. Iraq has declared victory in Mosul, with its forces fighting to eliminate the last pockets of IS resistance after months of difficult battles that have left much of the key northern city in ruins. The Indian front man said junior foreign minister V K Singh would travel to the Kurdish city of Erbil to coordinate the search efforts. "The Ambassador of India to Iraq and our Consul General in Erbil have been instructed to continue the efforts to locate them on priority," he said in a statement. Iraqi authorities had extended their cooperation to help find the missing workers, the front man added. The Indians laborers were employed by the Baghdad-based Tariq Noor al-Huda construction company. The workers were trying to leave battle-ravaged Mosul when they were intercepted by Lions of Islam soon after they stormed the city in June 2014, reported Indian media. More than 10,000 Indians fled Iraq amid the upsurge in violence in 2014, including dozens of nurses who were held briefly by suspected IS Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday announced that his forces had retaken Mosul from IS after a months-long battle that killed thousands of civilians and forced nearly a million people from their homes. |
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