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ISIL in West Mosul Faces Choice: Surrender or Die, OIR Spokesman Says
[Iraq Sun] Terrorists with the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and the Levant in the western part of Iraq's second-largest city face two options: surrender or die, the front man for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve told Pentagon news hounds today. An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Swordsmen of Strike Fighter Squadron 32 makes an tossed in the slammer
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
 landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Aug. 27, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard Eisenhower Deployment An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Swordsmen of Strike Fighter Squadron 32 makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Aug. 27, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard Download Image Image details page

"The enemy is completely surrounded in West djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, and those who do not surrender to the Iraqi security forces will be killed there," Air Force Col. John Dorrian said in a news briefing from Baghdad.

As Iraqi security forces prepare to liberate West Mosul, coalition strikes are pounding ISIS targets, including bully boyz and their weapons caches and ISIS command-and-control sites, Dorrian said.

With eastern Mosul liberated, the 16th Iraqi Army Division is serving as a "hold force" there to maintain pressure on any remaining ISIS sleeper cells and prevent the bully boyz from infiltrating the city again, the colonel explained. VIDEO | 01:00 | Inherent Resolve Spokesman Provides West Mosul Update

Terrorists are targeting eastern Mosul with indirect fire, mortars and artillery fires, Dorrian said, causing damage and civilian casualties. They are also using commercially available drones to observe and drop explosives on Iraqi security force and civilian positions, he added.

"Although dangerous and effective as a propaganda tactic, this has limited operational effect on the battlefield and will not change the outcome or significantly delay the inevitable," he said.
Posted by: Fred 2017-02-09
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