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| U.N.: Over 90,000 Flee Fighting in Iraq's Anbar |
| 2015-04-20 |
| [AnNahar] More than 90,000 people have fled fighting between pro-government forces and 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.... jihadist group in the Ramadi area of Iraq's Anbar province, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said on Sunday. "Humanitarian agencies are rushing to provide assistance to more than 90,000 people fleeing festivities in Anbar governorate," the U.N. said in a statement "Our top priority is delivering life-saving assistance to people who are fleeing -- food, water and shelter are highest on the list of priorities," it quoted Lise Grande, humanitarian coordinator for the U.N. in Iraq, as saying. At least 2.7 million people have been displaced in Iraq since the beginning of 2014, including almost half a million from the western province of Anbar, the U.N. said. IS spearheaded an offensive last June that overran large areas north and west of Baghdad, including swathes of Anbar. Anbar is a vast desert province that stretches east from the Baghdad governorate to the western borders with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Jordan and Syria. Parts of Ramadi and all of the city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... to its east have been out of government control for since early 2014. Iraqi security forces performed dismally in the early days of the IS drive, but have regained significant territory with backing from mainly Shiite paramilitaries, a U.S.-led coalition and Iran. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Ah, now I understand the article on Syrian organ trafficing, Izzi. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-04-20 14:01 |
| #2 brains.... |
| Posted by: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri 2015-04-20 13:37 |
| #1 I saw where al-Douri was reported killed the other day - Izzi still dead? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-04-20 13:21 |