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| IS Attacks Iraqi Army Base, Kill 40 And Capture At Least 70 |
| 2014-09-23 |
| [AnNahar] Jihadists attacked an Iraqi army base west of Baghdad with six jacket wallahs, killing 40 soldiers and capturing at least 70 others who fled, a senior army officer said Monday. Four suicide bombers detonated explosives-rigged armored personnel carriers at the base in Saqlawiyah on Sunday, while two others attacked with boom belts, General Rashid Fleih told Agence La Belle France-Presse. "Forty soldiers and officers were killed and contact was lost with between 70 and 80" who fled the base and were subsequently captured by 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.... (IS) jihadist group, Fleih said. IS myrmidons, who led an offensive that overran swathes of the country in June, detonated a bridge near the base five days ago, isolating it, he said. The jihadists also planted bombs on roads leading to the area, making it even more difficult to send reinforcements and leaving the soldiers to fight the gunnies from inside the base. Then the suicide bombers struck on Sunday in one of the deadliest single attacks on Iraqi soldiers in years. The United States launched a campaign of air strikes against IS in Iraq last month and La Belle France has also bombed the group, which holds significant territory in neighboring Syria and has declared a cross-border Islamic "caliphate". IS has executed hundreds of Iraqis and Syrians, beheaded foreign hostages and forced more than one million people from their homes in Iraq alone. And its front man, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, called in a statement posted online Monday for Moslems to kill citizens of all countries taking part in the anti-jihadist coalition that the United States is working to form. |
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