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| Iraq |
| Iraqi military reach Baiji |
| 2014-11-10 |
| [REUTERS] Iraqi military forces reached the center of the northern city of Baiji on Sunday in an effort to break an 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.... siege of the country's biggest refinery, triggering fierce festivities with the Lion of Islams, according to an army colonel and a witness. Separately, contradictory reports emerged over the fate of Islamic State leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... after U.S.-led air strikes against the group in at least two locations in Iraq on Friday night. The United States said it had no information to indicate Baghdadi had been hit. State television cited reports that Baghdadi had been maimed. It gave no further details. Baghdadi's fighters seized much of northern Iraq five months ago in a lightning offensive which also saw them capture the city of Baiji and surround its oil refinery, halting production and besieging a detachment of government troops there. The colonel said Iraqi troops entered Baiji, a city of about 200,000 people, from the south and west and took over the al-Tamim neighborhood and city center. |
| Posted by:Fred |