[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] La Belle France said on Tuesday it was deploying artillery to Iraq and readying its aircraft carrier for deployment to reinforce foreign military support for the Iraqi army’s expected push to recapture djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the de facto capital of ISIS in Iraq.
The Iraqi army and its elite units have gradually taken up positions around the city 400 km (248 miles) north of Baghdad, with international coalition forces keen to capitalize on the holy warrior group’s loss of territory in both Iraq and Syria.
"We decided to bolster our support of the Iraqi forces this Autumn with the aim of recapturing Mosul," French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a gathering of defense and military officials in Gay Paree.
"At this very moment, artillery is arriving close to the front line," Le Drian said, adding that the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier would soon leave for the Middle East.
French defense officials declined to give details on the nature of the artillery.
It was from Mosul’s Grand Mosque in 2014 that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad declared a caliphate spanning regions of Iraq and Syria.