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| Heavy ISIS casualties expected in US airstrikes in Shingal | |
| 2015-11-06 | |
| [Rudaw] US-led coalition ...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.... (ISIS) Lions of Islam in Shingal for two days, reportedly killing many, a Kurdish commander said on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Ezadeen Saddo said that, "since Wednesday morning the US coalition continuously targeted ISIS military bases at different times, which resulted in heavy casualties to the terrorist organization."
ISIS forces overran the Shingal district in August last year, forcing thousands of Yezidi Kurds to flee to the mountains. Hundreds of Yezidis were killed and thousands more taken into captivity, mostly women and maidens of tender years. ISIS bases in disputed Shingal have been frequently bombarded by coalition Shingal is a town in the Shingal district of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... province, near Mount Shingal. Its population in 2013 was estimated at more than 88,000. The town is mainly inhabited by Yezidis and other minorities. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 What does heavy mean in this context? Means the "one, two, three, many" accounting system was used. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-06 12:24 |