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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 08:16 AM Nov 2014

Iraqi forces drive IS from refinery town of Beiji

Source: ABC News

Iraqi government forces on Friday drove Islamic State militants out from their remaining strongholds inside the oil refinery town of Beiji, two security official said, in a key victory over the terror group that has captured much of northern and western Iraq in a stunning summer offensive.

The Iraqi troops, backed by allied Sunni militiamen, also lifted the Islamic State group's siege of the oil refinery, Iraq's largest, and hoisted Iraq's red, white and black flags atop the sprawling complex hosting the facility.

Reached by telephone in Beiji, the officials said the army used loudspeakers to warn the small number of residents still holed up in the town to stay indoors while bomb squads detonated booby-trapped houses and remaining bombs planted on the roads. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

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Islamic State extremists captured Beiji during their summer offensive. The Iraqi forces had collapsed in the face of that onslaught but have since partially regrouped and went on the offensive, with Beiji the biggest locality they have recaptured to date.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iraqi-forces-drive-refinery-town-beiji-26907017

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Iraqi forces drive IS from refinery town of Beiji (Original Post) JonLP24 Nov 2014 OP
Just driving them out is not enough cosmicone Nov 2014 #1
This is good news for the Baghdad government. Carry on. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2014 #2
 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
1. Just driving them out is not enough
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 12:32 PM
Nov 2014

They should be relentlessly pursued and every last one of them should be killed so such a plague will not occur again.

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