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Là je crois qu’on vient de perdre la guerre contre les takfiristes : ISIS reverts smoking ban in Kirkuk ’to gain popularity’
▻http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/09/22/ISIS-reverts-smoking-ban-in-Kirkuk.html

Residents of Iraq’s Kirkuk said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has backed down from its decision to ban smoking and has thus allowed selling cigarettes in areas it controls south and west of the province, Almada Press reported Saturday.

Abdulrahman al-Gabouri, a resident of Hawija, 55 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk, told Almada Press that ISIS has now allowed shops to sell cigarettes in the province and its towns.

The decision came as an attempt to gain popularity after the group’s extremist actions began to appall residents particularly after security forces, aided by international support, began to attack ISIS, the report added.

Ce qui me fait penser que cette année, plus personne ne fumait dans l’aéroport de Beyrouth. L’année dernière c’était déjà interdit, mais même le personnel de l’aéroport fumait encore, en se débrouillant pour jeter les cendres sur le bord des poubelles (oh la bonne idée…). Cette année, donc, terminé. L’ambiance n’était plus du tout la même, tu vois…

Militant attack in north #Iraq kills 14
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/militant-attack-north-iraq-kills-14

Militants attacked local government buildings in north Iraq on Wednesday with suicide bombers and mortar fire and clashed with soldiers, leaving 14 people dead, an army officer said. Seven civilians, three soldiers and four militants were killed in the violence in the town of Hawijah, west of Kirkuk, army Staff Major General Mohammed Khalaf al-Dulaimi said. One suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a police station while a second blew up another near a local (...)

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