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| Iraq |
| Troops advance against ISIS in Baiji. Again. |
| 2015-06-08 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji from 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.... forces of Evil on Sunday, a general said. The commander of the Interior Ministry's Quick Reaction Forces, General Nassir al-Fartousi, told state TV that the Iraqi flag was raised on a local government building in Beiji and that troops were advancing to other areas, without elaborating. There was no word on the fate of the contested refinery on the town's outskirts. Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, fell to the bully boy ISIS group during its blitz across northern Iraq nearly a year ago, but parts of the town and nearby refinery have since been retaken by government forces. The town is strategically significant as it lies on the road to ISIS-held djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq's second largest city. Iraqi and Kurdish forces have managed to roll back the Islamic State group in many parts of the country with the help of US-led The ISIS group has declared an Islamic caliphate in the territories it controls in Syria and Iraq, and has used oil facilities and smuggling to finance much of its operations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 IIRC CNN AM > the USDOD = Pentagon has confirmed that the Iraqi Govt-ARmy controls only 1/2 of Basij/Beiji, + THAT ITS "PREMATURE/STILL TOO EARLY" TO LABEL THE ISIS/ISIL AS DEFEATED THERE. As per #3, given the Bammer's ongoing or continuing "minimalist" approach to US FP, "Saudis bombing Shias" is the more realistic scenario as per US Allies continuing to bear the OWG Globalist burden of having to win or protect US National Security "over there". IFF THE BAMMER'S POST-JAN 2017 POTUS SUCCESSOR IS ANOTHER PCORRECT OR COVERT ANTI-US US GLOBALIST, WHATEVER MESS OF US FP THE BAMMER LEAVES BEHIND WILL BE MUCH BIGGER-N-WORSE THAN MAINSTREAM AMERIKA HAS SEEN SO FAR. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-08 21:21 |
| #3 I'm looking forward to the US bombing Sunnis, while the Saudis bomb Shiias in Iraq. Maybe they could do it on alternate days to prevent confusion. SA won't tolerate Iranian controlled Shiias right along its northern border. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2015-06-08 03:28 |
| #2 After Iraqi army & ISIS reconquer the Sunni inhibited territory from each other several times, would there be any Sunnis left? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-08 02:01 |
| #1 Politico Opinion: Iraq continues to fund ISIL by continuing salaries to the many Iraqi government employees who live in ISIL-controlled territory. That fact is a reminder of how poorly the country has been governed. ISIL skims the money Iraq continues to pay public employees who live in areas captured and ruled by ISIL. One official estimate holds that it reaps hundreds of millions of dollars each year from this source. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-06-08 00:21 |