Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Security services have tossed in the slammerYou have the right to remain silent...
more than twenty 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....
members in several operations in Nineveh province, while weapons and explosives were seized in their possession, security sources said on Saturday.
Speaking to BasNews website, Cap. Amir Watheq, from Nineveh police, said, "security troops arrested eight Islamic State members, possessing hand grenades in Makhmur, southeast of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
"Troops cordoned off the area, where the holy warriors were hiding and invaded their houses, then took them to Nineveh Operations Command headquarters for investigations."
All hand grenades, in their possession, were confiscated.
In related news, Col. Khodier Saleh, of the Federal Police, said, "security services arrested an IS cell, composed of 15 members, which was planning to to attack troops deployed in western Mosul."
"The cell members, were possessing weapons. All were arrested inside a tunnel," he added.
Thousands of Islamic State holy warriors as well as Iraqi non-combatants were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition was launched in October 2016 to fight the bad boy group, which declared a self-styled "caliphate" from Mosul in June 2014.
Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against security troops. Security reports indicate that the bad boy group still poses threat against stability in the country.