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2021-08-12 Iraq

Iraq blast kills 8 members of the security forces

[AlAhram] The blast killed six soldiers and two coppers charged with oil field protection, the source said.

A blast killed eight members of the security forces on Wednesday during an operation in northern Iraq to detonate explosives planted by the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, a security source said.

A military sapper was preparing a charge to detonate unwent kaboom! ordnance laid by the jihadists in Salaheddin province "when a mistake was made and the earth-shattering kaboom happened", the source told AFP.

Some of Iraq's largest oil refineries are situated in the region where the earth-shattering kaboom occurred. IS took the area in 2014 and it was recaptured by the Iraqi army in 2016.

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