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| Iraq |
| No Peshmerga or Shiite militias will enter Mosul city, US official says |
| 2016-10-01 |
| [RUDAW.NET] During the upcoming operation to liberate djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) faceless myrmidons neither the Kurdish Peshmerga nor the Shiite militia of Hashd al-Shaabi will enter the city throughout the course of the operation, the US Deputy Secretary of State has said. "The core of the force that liberates Mosul will be the Iraqi security forces backed by the coalition with the support of the Peshmerga," Antony Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. After the city is captured, Blinken added, the US hopes to have developed a 15,000-man Sunni Arab force to secure and stabilize the city after the faceless myrmidons are forced out. "The tribal elements that are being trained, equipped, brought on board with the goal of getting 15,000 of them will predominantly be the holding force once the city is liberated," he explained. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... US Air Force Colonel John Dorrian told news hounds that while the Peshmerga will participate in the operation to retake Mosul "the details of their involvement are still being worked out." In early August the Peshmerga advanced closer to Mosul, seizing several villages from ISIS control. According to Peshmerga commander Sheikh Jaffar Mustafa Peshmerga forces are, in some areas, as close as 10 kilometers to the city of Mosul. Iraqi forces are expected to assault Mosul from Qayyara airbase, which is 60 kilometers south of the city and was recaptured from ISIS back in July. Currently hundreds of US military advisors are helping the Iraqis establish Qayyara as a logistical hub ahead of their assault on Mosul, where they will play a supporting role in the operation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 US hopes to have developed a 15,000-man Sunni Arab force What color is the sky in his alternate reality? |
| Posted by: magpie 2016-10-01 20:55 |
| #1 Exclude the Peshmerga from Mosul city? We shall see. The Kurds may not have a strong claim to a part of Mosul city but they do claim territory very close to it on the east/north side of the Tigris. |
| Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 2016-10-01 09:30 |