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| Iraq |
| IS takes parts of Ramadi, kills 10, wounds Iraqi general |
| 2015-04-11 |
| [CNN] IS fighters seized several districts in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in an hours-long assault Friday that included suicide and boom-mobiles, an Iraqi provincial official said. At least 10 Iraqi security forces were killed in the attacks, according to Faleh al-Essawi, the deputy head of Iraq's Anbar provincial council. And the head of the Iraqi military operation in Anbar province, Gen. Qassim al-Muhammadi, was maimed. Iraqi and allied forces have made inroads in recent weeks beating back the group that calls itself 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , which took over vast swaths of Iraq and neighboring Syria last year. Their most high-profile victory, for instance, was the recapture of Tikrit. Still, ISIS remains a formidable force and, as the Ramadi assault shows, one that's still capable and willing to go on offense to take territory. |
| Posted by:Fred |