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Iraq
Sunni tribesmen battling Islamic State demand federalism in Iraq
2016-12-03
[AlAhram] As mortar bombs landed ever closer, Sunni tribal fighters preparing to attack 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 seemed more preoccupied by the failures of Iraq's political class than the Death Eaters trying to kill them.

The men - and one woman - from the Lions of the Tigris unit gathered on Wednesday in Shayyalah al-Imam, a village near djinn-infested Mosul
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