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Sporadic clashes in Iraq's Mosul after victory declaration | |
2017-07-12 | |
[DAWN] Sporadic festivities are continuing in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , even after Iraq declared a "total victory" over the bully boy 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.... (IS) group in the city. They used to be called Werewolves. At least one Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk. Jack!Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things? Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles. No,he said. Do you?... It called for a commission to investigate crimes against civilians by all sides in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from jihadists. "The horrors that the people of Mosul have witnessed and the disregard for human life by all parties to this conflict must not go unpunished," said Lynn Maalouf, director of Middle East research at
In Mosul's Old City, where buildings lie in ruins and burned-out cars and other debris choke the streets, security forces were still searching for remaining IS fighters. "What we are doing today is just combing the area and clearing it of sleeper cells," Staff Lieutenant General Sami al-Aridhi, a senior commander in Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), said Tuesday. "There are groups that are hiding in shelters," but they surrender or are killed, Aridhi said. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Thanks to the Iraqi army Mosul is now as safe as Paris or London. |
Posted by: jpal 2017-07-12 11:49 |
#1 BFD. We're still having sporadic clashes in Chicago and Baltimore and they've been pacified since the French and Indian War. |
Posted by: SteveS 2017-07-12 00:47 |