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| Iraq |
| Iraq Jihadists Slow Tikrit Advance with Bombs and Snipers |
| 2015-03-04 |
| [AnNahar] Iraqi forces closed in on Tikrit Tuesday, their progress slowed by jihadist snipers and booby traps, on the second day of Baghdad's largest operation yet against 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.... group. The government has mobilized a 30,000-strong force for the push to retake Tikrit made up of Shiite bully boyz and Sunni rustics as well as troops and police. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Is there a reason to capture Tikrit, rather than just eliminate it? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-03-04 10:47 |