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Iraq
Barzani’s party: ISIS started digging a ditch around Mosul and Baashiqa
2014-12-16
[IraqiNews.com] On Sunday, an official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Kurdish regional president, Masoud al-Barzani, revealed that ISIS snuffies have started digging a ditch around djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and Baashiqa for the purpose of resisting military operations to liberate the province of Nineveh.

The official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, named Saed Memozeni, stated for IraqiNews.com that, “The ISIS organization snuffies have begun to dig a ditch around the cities of Mosul and Baashiqa,” adding it is for the purpose of “resisting military operations to liberate Nineveh”.

Memozeni added, “This step does not pose an obstacle before the operations to liberate Mosul,” asserting that, “It does not affect the operations in any fashion.”

Noteworthy, on November 20th, 2014, General Commander of the Armed Forces, Haider al-Abadi revealed he issued a bureau order to form an Operational Command to liberate the province of Nineveh from ISIS. He also confirmed that operations to liberate the province of Anbar and areas near Mosul had been started.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Interesting idea, Phil.

Once the moat's complete, do whatever's necessary to get them to come up to the edge to shoot at their "enemy"; flood the moat with gasoline; light it off. Hilarity would ensue.

I can dream, can't I? :-D

Posted by: Barbara   2014-12-16 20:12  

#6  Nice - shovel ready jobs...
Posted by: Raj   2014-12-16 17:54  

#5  A moat I think.
Posted by: phil_b   2014-12-16 16:39  

#4  "We are not doing any digging. We let that for the Boches. We will ever be in the offensive" Patton (Distant memories).

If they dig that means they are in the defensive.
Posted by: JFM   2014-12-16 09:38  

#3  “The ISIS organization militants have begun to dig a ditch around the cities of Mosul and Baashiqa."

I'll bet that many of the recruits from the West didn't think that ISIS did digging. The recruits were in it for the beheadings not digging, Ugh.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-12-16 09:22  

#2  Digging in for the long haul? Great!
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-12-16 00:43  

#1  Digging trenches will just assist with after action sanitation.
Posted by: Super Hose   2014-12-16 00:15  

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