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Iraq
Iraqis return to shattered Tikrit after Islamic State routed
2015-06-24
[Rudaw] TIKRIT, Iraq -- Abdel Mowgood Hassan climbs over toppled bricks and a torn-away front door to enter his uncle's house in Tikrit, the first of his relatives to make a cautious return home since Islamic State
But laying there, undamaged, is a white T-shirt bearing the smiling image of Saddam. The Arabic script on it offers a once-popular phrase from the days of his rule, a remnant of a very different Iraq that, for many, seems so long ago: "If Saddam Says, Iraq Says."
...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 were driven out.

"It's safe," Hassan calmly says. "I checked for booby traps."
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