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Iraq
Iraq removes military commander who defeated ISIS on the ground
2019-09-29
[Rudaw] After he liberated djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and defeated the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  There is a long long history in that part of the world about successful military commanders and their bosses.

Who shoots first?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-09-29 10:19  

#3  A Shia who's also a successful battlefield commander? He should retire and run for political office.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2019-09-29 09:51  

#2  ..well, yeah. Unlike Saddam's day, they weren't shot or shoved into the paper shredder. There is a long long history in that part of the world about successful military commanders and their bosses.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-09-29 07:51  

#1  ...Wonder if he was getting too popular for the crooks government down Baghdad way...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-09-29 07:21  

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