| None of this would be needed if Champ had simply worked with the Iraqis to keep some US forces in Iraq in 2010. The blood is, in part, on his hands. |
[An Nahar] Iraqi forces prepared to retake the country's largest Christian town from the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group on Wednesday, a key milestone in their progress towards the jihadists' main hub of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
News of the move to recapture Qaraqosh sparked jubilation among Christians who had fled the town, with many dancing and singing in the city of Arbil. |