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Iraq
Islamic State Insurgents Advance Into Iraqi Town Of Qara Tappa
2014-10-21
[Ynet] 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....
snuffies advanced on the Iraqi town of Qara Tappa on Monday disguised as Kurdish peshmerga fighters, Kurdish security sources said.

They seized two Kurdish villages after surprising the Kurdish fighters before launching the attack on Qara Tappa, 120 km (75 miles) north of Baghdad, seeking to expand their territory and heap pressure on Kurdish forces in disputed areas.

"The snuffies were wearing peshmerga uniforms and this tactic helped them to easily infiltrate our defences near Qara Tappa," a peshmerga officer said on condition of anonymity.

Reinforcements were sent from the Kurdish-controlled city of Khanaqin to repel the bandidos myrmidons and prevent the town of Qara Tappa from falling, the sources said.
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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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group on Monday attacked the Kurdish-controlled town of Qara Tapah, northeast of Baghdad, killing at least seven peshmerga troops and three civilians, officials said.

The bully boyz attacked from two sides, lobbing mortar rounds into the town, which lies 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Iranian border.

"We have asked for air support from the international coalition," a senior military officer in the area said, referring to U.S.-led forces carrying out air strikes against IS.

According to peshmerga leaders and a hospital official in the nearby town of Khanaqin, at least seven peshmerga and three non-combatants were killed by the shelling and in the fighting that raged in surrounding villages.

"Almost half of the town's population fled today. We're talking about around 9,000 people," said a resident who gave his name as Haidar.

The head of an organization promoting the rights of Iraq's Turkmen minority also spoke of an exodus of several thousand people.

Qara Tapah, where three boom-mobiles killed at least 45 people on October 12, has a mixed population of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.

"The people who remain are young men who are carrying weapons to defend their town alongside peshmerga fighters," Haidar said.

"We are afraid IS will encircle us and turn this town into a second Amerli," said Haidar, in reference to a majority Turkmen Shiite town farther north that was besieged by IS for two months.

In August, an alliance of federal forces, Kurdish troops and Shiite militias eventually broke the siege of Amerli, where residents held off the jihadists against all odds.
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