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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Tikrit</title>
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		<title>The battle for Tikrit – Iraq going down “that” sectarian road again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the following sentence hold so much significance? Iraqi forces, backed by thousands of Shiite militiamen and Sunni tribesmen and supervised by the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards&#8217; elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, launched an attacked to retake the Islamic State (IS) held town of Tikrit, without the assistance of Coalition forces. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Iranian commander and Shiite militias spearhead attack on Tikrit, more questions than answers emerge from Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As lines of Iraqi Humvees and trucks jammed the roads to Tikrit with thousands of Iraqi forces looking well-motivated and itching for battle, on the surface this would point to all the positive signs – Iraq was finally ready to banish the Islamic State (IS) from their doorstep. However, as Chairman of the US Joint [&#8230;]]]></description>
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