Iraq: Mosul is Officially Cleared of ISIS

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
July 9, 2017

Well this long bit of total and complete nonsense has finally come to an end.

Seriously – how stupid of a thing?

The US gave all of this money to ISIS to fight this war against the Shiite government in Iraq – on behalf of Israel – then they were like “wow these guys we funded got way out of control, lol – we’d better start bombing them.”

But it was not really American bombs that did this, but the Iraqi military and their Iranian allies. So then, I salute you.

AP:

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi celebrated with Iraqi troops Sunday in Mosul after they drove Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in a nearly nine-month campaign, although heavy fighting by holdouts continued in parts of the Old City neighborhood.

Dressed in a black military uniform, a smiling al-Abadi walked amid the soldiers, at one point grabbing an Iraqi flag and briefly draping it on his shoulders. Other troops waved flags and pointed their weapons in the air nearby.

Al-Iraqia TV quoted him as saying he “congratulates the heroic fighters and the people on the big victory” in Iraq’s second-largest city, even as fighting rang out in pockets near the militants’ last stand at the Tigris River.

Their shit is still all messed up though. The city was completely destroyed, to the point where even calling it a city is sort of dumb.

You can’t really “repair” stuff that looks like that. You pretty much have to bulldoze it all and start over.

Well, I mean, I dunno. I’m not an engineer. I do know that most third world buildings are built on rebar pillars and mesh – that is, thick steel wires that form a mesh and are then covered in concrete. It’s possible you could keep parts of that on certain structures and not have to tear the whole thing down.

Either way though – they haven’t captured much of a prize here.

The loss of Mosul would mark a major defeat for the Islamic State, which has suffered a series of major setbacks over the past year.

The militants control less than a square kilometer (less than a mile) of territory in the shattered city in northern Iraq, but they were using human shields, suicide bombers and snipers in a fight to the death.

The AP doesn’t just teach you about world happenings – they teach you about units of measurement.

However, I want to make it clear that the official position of the Daily Stormer has and always will be: fuck the metric system, it’s a communist conspiracy.

Islamic State militants seized Mosul in the summer of 2014 when they swept across northern and central Iraq. That summer, the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, appeared at Mosul’s al-Nuri Mosque and declared a caliphate on territory it seized in Iraq and Syria.

Iraq launched the operation to retake Mosul in October, backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition. The fierce battle has killed thousands and displaced more than 897,000 people.

Last month, as Iraqi troops closed in on Mosul’s Old City, the militants destroyed the al-Nuri Mosque and its famous leaning minaret to deny the forces a symbolic triumph.

Lt. Gen. Jassim Nizal of the army’s 9th Division said his forces achieved “victory” in their sector, after a similar announcement by the militarized Federal Police. His soldiers danced to patriotic music atop tanks even as airstrikes sent up plumes of smoke nearby.

Nizal acknowledged that many of his men were among those who fled the city when IS forces seized Mosul in 2014 in a humiliating defeat for the Iraqi armed forces.

“Some things happened here, that’s true,” he said. “But we have come back.”

Much of the Old City and surrounding areas have been devastated by the grueling urban combat. On Sunday, a line of weary civilians walked out of the Old City, past the shells of destroyed apartment blocks lining the cratered roads.

Heba Walid held her sister-in-law’s baby, which was born into war. The parents of the 6-month-old, along with 15 other family members, were killed last month when an airstrike hit their home. When Walid ran out of formula, she fed the baby a paste of crushed biscuits mixed with water.

Well that is not going to be a healthy child, lol.

She should have fed it purple drank.

Crushed biscuits, smdh.

Anyhow…

This little victory lining up with all of these other victories is fortuitous and symbolic, I must say.

Bad news is, it means more bombings in Western Europe.

But wait – is that bad news?

Do I even care if these people who keep voting for an invasion keep getting blown up?

Especially if it is like, at a dick bicycle event?

No, not really.