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Mosul will be a difficult fight, says Obama
 [DAWN] President Barack Obamateachable moment... warned on Tuesday of a tough battle ahead as Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition advance on djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to wrest the city from the bad 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.... group. Obama said the push to liberate the northern city, the jihadists’ last stronghold in Iraq, now in its second day, was a "major step forward." "I am confident that ISIS will be defeated in Mosul and that will be another step toward their ultimate destruction," he told a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, using an acronym for the jihadist group. But the US leader warned of a challenging road ahead. "Mosul will be a difficult fight. There will be advances and there will be setbacks," Obama said. "Perhaps one million civilians are still living there," Obama added. "In addition to rooting out ISIS, our focus is on the safety and humanitarian aid  for civilians escaping the fight. That will be a top priority for both our governments."Posted by: Fred 2016-10-20 |
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