| Follow up to this story from yesterday. |
Iraqi Airstrikes Kill 9 IS Militants, including 4 Lebanese https://t.co/Cgbn1j2nVW
— Naharnet (@Naharnet) January 30, 2022
Iraqi
...
KABOOM!...
s killed nine suspected 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
fighters, including four Lebanese, in retaliation for an IS attack on Iraqi army barracks earlier this month, officials said Sunday.
IS button men in Iraq broke into a barracks in the mountainous al-Azim district outside the town of Baqouba on Jan. 21, killed a guard and rubbed out 11 soldiers as they slept. It was one of the boldest attacks by the murderous Moslems in recent weeks and came amid an uptick in violence that stoked fears the group has been re-energized.
Yehia Rasool, the front man for Iraq's commander in chief, said the joint military operations room and the air force identified the cell behind the attack as its members hid in al-Azim, north of Baghdad.
Three airstrikes were launched that killed the nine holy warriors, he said.
A security official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that four among the killed were Lebanese, natives of the northern town of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to news hounds.
Tripoli is
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...'s second largest city and the country's most impoverished. It has been prone to violence and murderous Moslems who, inspired by the Islamic State group, launched attacks against the Lebanese Army in 2014 in the most serious bout of violence in the city. As Lebanon faces an unprecedented convergence of crises, including a swift descent into poverty, many fear murderous Moslems may seek to exploit discontent among the city's majority Sunni residents.
Lebanon's al-Jadeed TV gave a higher corpse count, saying that five Lebanese were killed in Iraq. One family member appealed in the broadcast to Lebanese authorities to facilitate return of the bodies.
Also Sunday, Iraqi anti-terrorism units carried out an inspection campaign in seven prisons in Iraq holding IS holy warriors. The campaign comes after a brazen prison attack IS murderous Moslems carried out in northeastern Syria that lasted for over a week and in which an unknown number of suspects escaped, the anti-terrorism unit said in a statement.
IS was largely defeated in Iraq in 2017. The group was dealt a final blow in 2019 when it lost its last territory in southeast Syria during the U.S.-led military campaign in cooperation with Syrian Kurdish-led forces.
But thousands of murderous Moslems melted into the desert and have continued to wage attacks, frequently hitting security forces and military with roadside kabooms and firing on military convoys or checkpoints in both countries.
Iraqi F-16s conducted three strikes, killing nine #ISIS members in Hawi al-A’zim in Diyala governorate eastern #Iraq. @coalition https://t.co/ND1HPmdp0Z
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) January 30, 2022