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| IS Jihadists Kill 16 Border Guards in Western Iraq |
| 2014-12-02 |
| [AnNahar] At least 16 Iraqi border guards were killed Monday in a dawn assault 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.... jihadist group on their post near the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials said. "Sixteen border guards, including a captain, were killed and four maimed in an attack targeting their headquarters in Al-Walid, near the Syrian border," Faleh al-Issawi, deputy head of Anbar provincial council, told AFP. He said the attack occurred at around 6:00 am (0300 GMT). A commander in the Iraqi border force and a police major confirmed the corpse count. Despite the attack, "Al-Walid is still in the hands of Iraqi forces," the major said. The crossing is one of the country's most remote outposts and lies 500 kilometers (310 miles) west of Baghdad near the westernmost point in Anbar province where the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet. Jihadist fighters briefly held Al-Walid border crossing on June 23 but it has remained in government hands since. Parts of the vast Anbar province, which also borders Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , have been out of government control since the start of the year, months before IS launched a major offensive across Iraq in June. Government forces backed by U.S.-led But IS fighters have held their ground in Anbar and tried to tighten their grip on the province by attacking government positions and buildings in its capital Ramadi. |
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