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The chaos risks unraveling the progress made by Iraqi forces backed by a coalition of allies including the United States, which spends $12.5 million a day on air operations against the Islamic State and has spent billions more training and equipping Iraqi security forces.
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Iraqi commanders spearheading the fight complain that they don’t have enough competent forces to hold recently recaptured areas. Reformed police forces are again riddled with corruption, and governance has been left to chronically weak institutions.
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At checkpoints on the edges of the city, cars wait in long lines to be allowed in and out. But officials say the cards can be bought easily, opening the city canadian goose jacket up to attack by allowing militants to move in and out.
A man linked with ISIS, blindfolded and handcuffed, kneels on the ground between two members of the Iraqi security forces
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„This is our problem. Most witnesses don’t have courage to come forward,“ he said, denying that police take bribes to release people or hide evidence.
But others say those problems are rife.
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In majority Sunni areas like Ramadi, the Islamic State is not the only group attempting to reassert itself.
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„No way can al Qaida come back,“ Moussa said, adding that al Qaida members have all switched allegiance to the Islamic State and are on the run in the province, pushed out to its border areas.
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At the courthouse in Ramadi, Judge Ali Fadhawi said the system is overwhelmed. The ceiling sags from the impact of explosions, a reminder that not too long ago, the building was in the middle of a war zone.