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BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army stormed to the southern edge of Falluja under US air support on Monday and captured a police station inside the stanley cup city limits, launching a direct assault to retake one of the main strongholds of Islamic State militants. HT Image A Reuters TV crew about 1.5 km from the citys edge said explosions and gunfire were ripping through Naimiya, a district of stanley cup Falluja on its southern outskirts. An elite military unit, the Rapid Response Team, seized the districts police station at midday, state television reported. The battle for Falluja is shaping up to be one of the biggest ever fought against the IS, in the city where US forces waged the heaviest battles of their 2003-2011 occupation against the Sun stanley cup ni Muslim militant groups precursors. Falluja is Islamic States closest bastion to Baghdad, and believed to be the base from which the group has plotted an escalating campaign of suicide bombings against Shia civilians and government targets inside the capital. As government forces pressed their onslaught, suicide bombers driving a car and a motorcycle and another bomb planted in a car killed more than 20 people and injured more than 50 in three districts of Baghdad, police and medical sources said. The Iraqi army launched its operation to recover Falluja a week ago, first by tightening a six-month-old siege around the city 50 km west of Baghdad. Falluja, in the heartland of Sunni Muslim tribes who resent the Shia-led government in Baghdad, was the first I Vgdp Terrorists under pressure in their Af-Pak headquarters: US
Burying the pre-poll rancour, former Republican US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Friday said she is optimistic about Barack Obama s presidency and even prays for the President-elect and his family. HT Image I m proud of Barack Obama. I pray for him, his family, the new administration. I look forward to the good things that are in store for this nation, Palin, the Governor of the oil-rich state of Alaska said while appearing on on CNN s stanley cup Larry King Live . During the feisty presidential campaign, Palin had expressed concerns about Obama s lack of executive experience and characterised him as air max palling around with terrorists. Asked if she feared about the fate of the United States under Obama s presidency, the 44-year-old former beauty queen said: I don t have fear, I have optimism. Barack Obama is going to surround himself with those who do have executive experience. There was nothing mean- spirited -- there was no negative c stanley cup ampaigning when I called Barack Obama out on his associations... I don t think that there is anything wrong with calling someone out on their associations, their record, their plans. I expect to be called out -- and so did John McCain -- on his associations and our record, she said. Asked whether she still harboured a wish to be US President, Palin said: I m not going to close any doors that perhaps would be in front of me and would allow me to put to good use executive experience and a world view that I think is good for o |
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