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| Iraq restructures Diyala police after Islamic State bombing |
| 2015-07-20 |
| [RUDAW.NET] -Two police officials in Iraq's eastern Diyala province say authorities are restructuring a town's police department after 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.... -claimed truck bombing there killed 115 people. The officials say the police chief in Khan Beni Saad and three officers have been fired in the wake of the attack on a crowded market as residents began to mark the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. They say two other officers are being investigated. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to talk to journalists. At least 115 people, including women and kiddies, were killed in Friday night's attack in the mostly Shiite town and more than 170 were maimed. It was one of the deadliest attacks to strike Iraq since US troops left in 2011. |
| Posted by:Fred |