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Iraq
Iraqi military foils terrorist scheme against troops in Anbar’s desert
2018-05-27
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military intelligence department has announced foiling a terrorist scheme against troops in the desert of Anbar province.

In a statement on Friday, the department said "the troops of the 10th division carried out an operation that managed to thwart a scheme planned by Lions of Islam who were going to target the security forces."

Moreover, the department said "an operation was launched that raided two rest houses of 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....
, north of al-Thirthar desert in Anbar." Huge amounts of weapons were seized inside them.

Earlier Friday, a paramilitary leader was quoted saying that Iraqi army warplanes killed seven Islamic State snuffies after bombarding their locations in Wadi Jaal in Hit, west of Anbar.
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