...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
bully boyz to sneak into Samarra city in Salahuddin province.
In a statement carried by the privately-owned Baghdad Today news website, the Samarra Operations Command of the Shiite Saraya al-Salam brigades said that it "received intelligence information on a plot by IS holy warriors to infiltrate into al-Adiyat, Zour Albu-Hammoud and Ain al-Helwa cities in Samarra on board a number of boats."
The militiamen, according to the statement, shot up the IS holy warriors and forced them to retreat.
Saraya al-Salam is an Iraqi gang linked to Iraq’s Shia community. It is a 2014 revival of the Mahdi Army that was created by Iraqi Shia holy man
Moqtada Tateral-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
in June 2003 and disbanded in 2008.
The group was re-mobilized in 2014 in order to fight against the Islamic State and it is still active till now.