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Iraq
US airstrike in Mosul leaves 90 Iraqi troopers dead
2016-12-11
[Iran Press TV] At least 90 Iraqi soldiers have bit the dust when fighter jets from the United States Air Force (USAF) mistakenly struck their position in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
 as government forces and allied fighters are trying to flush ISIS Lions of Islam out of the strategic northern city.
Ayep. Jimmy cracked corn, too.
An Iraqi army source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Saturday that the Arclight airstrike had targeted soldiers from the 9th Armored Division of the Iraqi army the previous day, destroying eight infantry fighting vehicles as well as four Humvee military trucks. Some 100 soldiers were also maimed as a result of the attack.

On Saturday, the commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement that Iraqi counter-terrorism forces had managed to free the entire neighborhoods of al-Qadisiyah and al-Morour in the eastern quarter of Mosul from ISIS.

Yarallah added that security forces had also raised the Iraqi flag over several buildings in both districts, and inflicted heavy human and material losses on the terrorists.

The Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) also stated that Iraqi F-16 fighter jets had carried out Arclight airstrikes on designated targets inside Mosul, destroying three bomb-making workshops and as many arms depots.
Posted by:Fred

#2  I wonder if this is from the hospital in East Mosul. Daesh allowed the 9th Armored to reach the hospital, then surrounded and ambushed them. The counter terrorist division had to fight their way through and rescue them.

Any vehicles left behind would be targeted by the air coalition.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2016-12-11 11:03  

#1  "Friendly fire is never friendly."
~ Author Unknown
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-11 01:22  

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