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IPFS News Link • Iraq

Pentagon Quietly Sends More Intelligence Officers to Iraq

• http://www.thedailysheeple.com, RT
On Friday, Reuters reported that the Pentagon has sent an entire team of high-level American intelligence agents abroad in order to investigate reports of growing insurgency, citing two current and one former US officials familiar with the matter. The officials, Reuters claimed, believe the ISIL “now boasts territorial influence stretching from Iraq’s western Anbar province to northern Syria.” An Al-Qaeda offshoot, the ISIL has for years been working towards imposing Sharia law in the parts of Iraq that are typically Sunni-majority regions. In recent days, however, those efforts have been linked to grave acts of violence that have killed dozens just over the weekend. By Saturday, the Associated Press had reported that the ISIL was claiming responsibility for a bombing one day earlier that left no fewer than six people dead. The following day, ISIL was attributed with taking the lives of 33 after an attack was waged at a political rally for a hardline Shiite group known as Asaib Ahl Al-Haq.