BAGHDAD: As Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State group, former general Abdel Karim Khalaf came to a sad realization -- they were fighting against some of his former army comrades.
The tactics IS jihadists used -- from the way they dug tunnels to their construction of defenses -- were lifted straight from the manual of the old Iraqi armed forces under dictator Saddam Hussein.
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