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Sunday, February 5, 2017
Mosul residents outraged by IS ‘hole fee’
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Cash-strapped jihadists punching holes in people’s homes to move across west Mosul undetected are now asking victims to pay for the labor, several residents said Sunday.
The fee is a modest 7,000 Iraqi dinars (around $6 or NIS 22) but adds insult to injury, say residents of Mosul’s west bank, where the Islamic State group is digging in for a planned offensive by the Iraqi security forces.
“Daesh is smashing holes in the walls of our homes without giving us a choice,” says a resident of an area known as “Pepsi street” who gave his name as Abu Asaad, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
— AFP
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