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Baghdad seeks airstrikes to rid Tikrit of IS; Saddam tomb leveled |
2015-03-17 |
[ARABNEWS] Iraq said on Monday it had put its Tikrit offensive on hold and bigwigs called for more ...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.... The offensive, the largest yet against Lions of Islam who swept through northern Iraq in June, has been stalled for four days after Iraqi security forces and mainly Shiite militia pushed into Tikrit last week. They have struggled to gain further ground against the Government forces are in control of most of the northern Qadisiya district as well as the southern and western outskirts of the city, trapping the Interior Minister Mohammed Al-Ghaban said authorities had put a temporary halt to the offensive in Tikrit. "We have decided to halt military operations in Salahuddin in order to reduce casualties among our heroic forces... and to preserve the remaining infrastructure," the minister said. Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... the tomb of Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein was virtually leveled in heavy festivities. News Agency that Dare Not be Named video from the village of Ouja, just south of Tikrit, shows all that remains of Hussein's once-lavish tomb are the support columns that held up the roof. Poster-sized pictures of Saddam, which once covered the mausoleum, are now nowhere to be seen amid the mountains of concrete rubble. Instead, Shiite militia flags and photos of militia leaders mark the predominantly Sunni village, including that of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian general advising Iraqi Shiite militias on the battlefield. |
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