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3/13/15
citizens Shi'ite fighters in Tikrit in Iraq after entering the city, amid calls from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi not to commit any violations or revenge operations of the city's population, according to the channel, "said the Arab" on Friday.
The prime minister vowed to punish those who commit violations in Tikrit, while the joint Iraqi troops advancing cautiously in Tikrit after the expulsion Daash.
Earlier, thousands of Iraqi soldiers collar city of Tikrit, waiting for the start of the attack on militants organize "Daash" who promised Thursday to achieve victories. And reduced regulation in the 28-minute recording broadcast Thursday on the Internet, in the name of so-called spokesman Abu Mohammed Daash Aladnana Shami, the significance of the losses suffered in recent weeks in Iraq.
On the ground, arrived about 30 thousand element of the army, police and armed Shi'ite factions and the sons of Sunni tribal military operation that began on the second of March to restore Tikrit, Salahuddin province, and surrounding areas. And these forces regained successively towns and surrounding areas, before they enter Wednesday Qadisiyah neighborhood in the north of Tikrit (110 km north of Baghdad), located at the banks of the Tigris River.
He said Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi in a field visit to the province of Salahuddin on Thursday that the troops "has embarked on the second page" of the plan. "The fact that time is not important to the losses that may be incurred by the troops. We are very keen that our losses are minimal, and the time in our hands. We are the owners of the initiative."
The authorities gave the proceeds of their losses since the start of the process, which is the largest offensive against the organization since its control over large areas in the country in June.
Tikrit is besieged from all sides
For his part, said Maj. Gen. Bahaa al-Azzawi in the police: "I do not want to jump the gun because we want to avoid casualties," and that during a tour of the village of Albu-Ajeel located off of Tikrit. "The Tikrit surrounded from all sides."
And become towns and areas east of the river, but the Iraqi forces, and between science and Albu-Ajeel role. Can be in the town Show slogans to organize Daash on the walls, I have written above pro-Shiite factions phrases.
Tikrit, located on the western bank of the river, and the need to prepare engineering units pontoon bridges to cross the river after the organization blew up bridges to hinder progress.
And enjoy Tikrit Sunni majority, symbolic and strategic importance. It is the hometown of former President Saddam Hussein, and the weight of the dissolved Baath Party, which believes that some of its leaders in the city cooperated with the organization in the June attack. Also located on the road between Baghdad and Mosul in the north, the first areas that have fallen into the hands of the organization a few months ago.
Analysts say that the battle of Tikrit test of the ability of the regular forces and gunmen loyal to her to launch a military operation to restore Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, which has seen a collapse of the security forces during an attack in June
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3/13/15
citizens Shi'ite fighters in Tikrit in Iraq after entering the city, amid calls from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi not to commit any violations or revenge operations of the city's population, according to the channel, "said the Arab" on Friday.
The prime minister vowed to punish those who commit violations in Tikrit, while the joint Iraqi troops advancing cautiously in Tikrit after the expulsion Daash.
Earlier, thousands of Iraqi soldiers collar city of Tikrit, waiting for the start of the attack on militants organize "Daash" who promised Thursday to achieve victories. And reduced regulation in the 28-minute recording broadcast Thursday on the Internet, in the name of so-called spokesman Abu Mohammed Daash Aladnana Shami, the significance of the losses suffered in recent weeks in Iraq.
On the ground, arrived about 30 thousand element of the army, police and armed Shi'ite factions and the sons of Sunni tribal military operation that began on the second of March to restore Tikrit, Salahuddin province, and surrounding areas. And these forces regained successively towns and surrounding areas, before they enter Wednesday Qadisiyah neighborhood in the north of Tikrit (110 km north of Baghdad), located at the banks of the Tigris River.
He said Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi in a field visit to the province of Salahuddin on Thursday that the troops "has embarked on the second page" of the plan. "The fact that time is not important to the losses that may be incurred by the troops. We are very keen that our losses are minimal, and the time in our hands. We are the owners of the initiative."
The authorities gave the proceeds of their losses since the start of the process, which is the largest offensive against the organization since its control over large areas in the country in June.
Tikrit is besieged from all sides
For his part, said Maj. Gen. Bahaa al-Azzawi in the police: "I do not want to jump the gun because we want to avoid casualties," and that during a tour of the village of Albu-Ajeel located off of Tikrit. "The Tikrit surrounded from all sides."
And become towns and areas east of the river, but the Iraqi forces, and between science and Albu-Ajeel role. Can be in the town Show slogans to organize Daash on the walls, I have written above pro-Shiite factions phrases.
Tikrit, located on the western bank of the river, and the need to prepare engineering units pontoon bridges to cross the river after the organization blew up bridges to hinder progress.
And enjoy Tikrit Sunni majority, symbolic and strategic importance. It is the hometown of former President Saddam Hussein, and the weight of the dissolved Baath Party, which believes that some of its leaders in the city cooperated with the organization in the June attack. Also located on the road between Baghdad and Mosul in the north, the first areas that have fallen into the hands of the organization a few months ago.
Analysts say that the battle of Tikrit test of the ability of the regular forces and gunmen loyal to her to launch a military operation to restore Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, which has seen a collapse of the security forces during an attack in June
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