"Crusaders and Jews don't dare to come on the ground because they were defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said in a 23-minute long audio message released through an Isil-run internet account.Merry, merry.
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RELATED: Hmmm... what the media overlooks...
...is the Muslim on Muslim component here...
Ramadi was recaptured by the army itself, without relying on the militias, who were kept off the battlefield to avoid sectarian tensions with the mainly Sunni population.That "sectarian tensions" thing... that translates to Sunnis and Shiites chopping off each other's heads. (Nb. - that "chopping" remark... that's not a figure of speech).
“The complex is under our complete control, there is no presence whatsoever of Daesh fighters in the complex,” Numani told Reuters.
