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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 19, 2016
Early reports show that the Iraqi operation against the ISIS base of Mosul is going well.
I wouldn’t rule out the US bombing to support ISIS, however.
They have sent 100 troops, but I wouldn’t be surprised if these are used to sabotage the operation. I mean, they have to pretend to be against ISIS, but these are absolutely their allies against the Shiites.
If Mosul falls, the ISIS operation in Syria will collapse within a few weeks. Aleppo will be all they have left.
The secretive leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is believed to be holed up in the terror group’s hub of Mosul, as Iraqi and U.S. forces close in this week ahead of what could be a climactic fight.
Senior Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari said his forces had “solid” intelligence al-Baghdadi was somewhere in the Iraqi city of more than a million people and up to 6,000 ISIS fighters. The ISIS leader is likely with the group’s bomb maker Fawzi Ali Nouimeh, Kurdish officials told Reuters.
Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to ISIS in the summer of 2014 as the militants swept over much of the country’s north and central areas. Weeks later, al-Baghdadi announced the formation of a self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria from the pulpit of a Mosul mosque.
Zebari said ISIS was “disoriented, they don’t know whether to expect attacks from the east or west or north.”
If successful, the liberation of Mosul would represent the biggest blow yet to ISIS. After a string of victories by Iraqi ground forces over the past year, the terror group now controls less than half the territory it once held, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has pledged the fight for Mosul will lead to the liberation of all Iraqi territory from the militants this year.
This is more due to Russian operations in Syria than the Iraqi military, but whatever.
Iraqi Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati on Wednesday called on Iraqis fighting for ISIS in Mosul to surrender as a wide-scale operation to retake the militant-held city entered its third day.
So far, the militants have put up fierce resistance in villages surrounding the city, where most of the fighting has been concentrated. ISIS has sent trucks loaded with explosives careening toward the front lines and fired mortars to slow the Iraqi forces’ advance.
An Iraqi officer from the 9th Division told The Associated Press that his troops were now around 1 half mile away from Hamdaniyah, a historically Christian town also known as Bakhdida, to the east of Mosul.
Over the past day, ISIS sent 12 car bombs, all of which were blown up before reaching their targets, he said, adding that Iraqi troops suffered a small number of casualties from the mortar rounds. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters, did not provide specific figures.
The operation to retake Mosul is the largest launched by the Iraqi army since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Some 25,000 troops, including Sunni tribal fighters, Kurdish forces known as the peshmerga and state-sanctioned Shiite militias known as the Popular Mobilization Units are approaching the city from different directions.
The participation of the Shiite militias in the operation to retake the mainly Sunni Mosul has raised concerns that the campaign could inflame sectarian tensions. Rights groups have accused the Shiite militias of abuses in past campaigns against ISIS-held areas.
LOL
Terrorist human rights again!
Anyway, all of this is leading up to further need for the US to act in Syria, lest the country fall to its elected and internationally recognized leader, Bashir al-Assad.
Lavrov has pointed out that these ISIS fighters fleeing Mosul will head to Syria, suggesting that the US is purposefully leaving them an exit opening.
RT:
If Islamic State fighters are allowed to leave Mosul and go to Syria, Russia would take the appropriate military and political decisions, the Russian foreign minister warned.
Commenting the ongoing siege of the Iraqi city, Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday: “As far as I know, the city is not fully encircled. I hope it’s because they simply couldn’t do it, not because they wouldn’t do it. But this corridor poses a risk that Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] fighters could flee from Mosul and go to Syria.
“We will be evaluating the situation and take decisions of both political and military nature if this happens,” he added. “I hope the US-led coalition, which is actively engaged in the operation to take Mosul, will take it into account.”
The coalition – which includes the air forces of several nations, primarily the US, and ground forces of the Iraqi government, Kurdish and Shiite militias and Turkish troops – is involved in the siege of Mosul, the Iraqi stronghold of IS. Lavrov pointed out that the coalition has internal rivalries, which may hurt the effort to liberate the city from IS, a goal that Moscow supports.
“The regional balance of power is affected by the rivalry over who would take Mosul on the ground. Would it be the Iraqi army? If so, would the Shiite troops take part? What part would the Kurdish militia play? What part would Turkey, which has an expeditionary force there, play with the Iraqi leadership protesting against it,” Lavrov said.
Yeah.
"Get out Erdogan! Get out occupier!"
Thousands of Iraqis slam Turkey's occupation of #Mosul right in front of the Turkish embassy in Baghdad pic.twitter.com/9eSgMdbGUB— Sahar Abdallah (@sahouraxo) October 18, 2016
Anyhow.
I guess the US plan is to centralize their ISIS forces in Syria.
Though less territory generally equals less power, whatever the case.
The bottom line is: Germany must open back up.
Someone has to feed these kids.
As Iraqi & coalition forces close in on #Mosul, the lives of 500K children are in danger and families have an impossible decision to make: pic.twitter.com/GwwPixfDq0
— Save the Children US (@SavetheChildren) October 19, 2016
