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| Jalawla families return to bomb-free homes and Peshmerga protection |
| 2015-12-28 |
| [RUDAW.NET] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than 155 families have returned to the town of Jalawla a year after it was liberated by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, a local official said. The families were allowed to return home after their houses, streets and roads were declared safe by bomb disposal engineers. The town in northern Diyala was taken by 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.... (ISIS) bully boyz August last year but Kurdish forces regained the town three months later. "After bomb disposal teams cleared the neighborhood of Azadi of landmines and booby traps laid by ISIS during the battle for the city, 155 families managed to retuen to the city," the mayor of Jalawla Yaqub Lihebi told Rudaw. The radical bully boyz had rigged many homes and public places with explosives during their brief control of the town. "We assisted these families to return home by restoring public services to the town's neighborhoods including electricity, water and roads," the mayor added. Previously, 83 families, mostly Arabs had returned to their villages in the outskirts of Jalawla. With ISIS gone from most of Diyala, Peshmerga Brigadier. Najmadeen Omer, said that his forces and the Kurdish security maintain a heavy presence and patrol the area "to protect Jalawla from infiltrating ISIS hard boys," |
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