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Iraq
Kurds Attack IS-Held Town as Mosul Battle Rages
2016-10-21
[An Nahar] Kurdish forces launched a major assault Thursday on a town held 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, opening a new front in the offensive to wrest back the jihadists' last Iraqi bastion.
Posted by:Fred

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