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Iraq
ISIL terrorists attack Iraq's Baiji oil refinery
2015-04-12
[Iran Press TV] Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
ISIL forces of Evil have launched a fierce assault on Iraq's Baiji oil refinery, the country's largest, located near the key northern city of Baiji in Salahuddin province, an Iraqi army officer says.

"Today, Daesh launched an attack against the Baiji oil refinery," the officer stated on Saturday, using the Arabic acronym for ISIL.

The military source added that the raid on the refinery was "the fiercest since we broke the siege (of the facility) a few months ago."

The forces of Evil claimed they broke in but the Iraqi army said the site remained under its control.

The officer also noted that the forces of Evil attacked the refinery from three fronts: Al-Bujwari village to the south, the housing compound for refinery employees to the west and a small plant to the east.

Three ISIL bombers "were able to reach the entrances of the refinery, he said, adding that two were killed but one managed to detonate his boom vest.

The source further stressed that the Iraqi troops protecting the site were able to kill 20 ISIL snuffies and regain control of the entire site, including the entrances.

"Daesh is trying to send the message that they are everywhere but in fact they are defeated and cannot advance," the officer said.

The refinery, which once produced some 300,000 barrels of refined petroleum products per day, was under the siege of the ISIL snuffies for months.

In November last year, Iraqi forces retook the city of Baiji and broke the siege on its oil refinery. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the ISIL recaptured the city later.

Baiji is located on a main road to the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, which is under the ISIL control and its liberation can choke off the Lion of Islams' supply lines.
Update at 230 p.m. ET from Iraqi News::
Saturday, a security source in Salahuddin province said, that 15 elements of the ISIS group have been killed in festivities with the security forces in northern Tikrit.

The source informed IraqiNews, "ISIS gunnies carried out an attack with mortar rounds and medium and light weapons on Biji oil refinery," pointing out that, "The festivities between the two sides resulted in killing 15 ISIS elements and destroying 3 oil tanks inside the refinery."
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