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Hero Iraqi Soldier Saves His Comrades From ISIS Suicide Bomber By Reversing His Hummer Into Speeding Boom-Mobile
 The ISIS suicide bomber drove his car packed with explosives at an Iraqi patrol An Iraqi soldier saved his comrades lives by diverting a suicide bomber's desperate attack in Mosul by blocking the road with his Humvee. The attack was filmed by an ISIS drone and later uploaded onto the internet. Hmm. It seems ISIS reporters are doing a better job than our MSM. In the shocking footage, the car bomb can be seen approaching from the top of the screen and was heading towards a group of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit forces involved in the battle to retake the city. The suicide bomber's vehicle explodes as it reaches the Humvee. It is not known if either driver survived but commentators online have described the Iraqi soldiers actions as 'the ultimate sacrifice'. ISIS terrorists have been surrounded in a small enclave in the northern Iraqi city and are hiding among the remaining civilian population, deploying snipers and suicide car bombs in a desperate bid to hold on. US soldiers have deployed artillery pieces on the outskirts of the city to provide close support for Iraqi forces battling street by street to retake the city. Fighting is expected to get tougher as Iraqi troops push further into the more densely populated areas in the western half of the city, including the old city. ISIS used car bombs in their counter-attack on Tuesday night around the Nineveh governorate building, Major General Ali Kadhem al-Lami of the Federal Police's Fifth Division said: 'Today we're clearing the area which was liberated.' Military officials had said that Rapid Response troops, an elite interior ministry division, recaptured the provincial government headquarters on Tuesday. They also took the central bank branch and a museum where ISIS had filmed themselves destroying priceless statues in 2015. Lami said: 'The museum is completely empty of all artifacts. They were stolen, possibly smuggled.' Lami said most of the fighters that had fought around the governorate building were local, but some were foreigners. He said: ''An order was issued for foreign fighters with families to withdraw with them. Those who do not have a family should stay and fight, whether foreign or local.' The few families remaining in the nearby Dawasa district said the ISIS had set some of their homes on fire as security forces advanced and that the militants had fought among themselves. On Wednesday, the Iraqi military said the army and Shi'ite paramilitary forces had taken full control of the last major road leading west out of Mosul towards the town of Tal Afar, state TV reported. The 9th Armoured Division and two Shi'ite fighting groups had 'isolated the right bank (western side of Mosul) from Tal Afar', it said. The road links Mosul to Tal Afar, another ISIS stronghold 40 miles) to the west, and then to the Syrian border. Shi'ite militias taking part in the Mosul campaign began to close in on Tal Afar late last year, after the offensive was launched. They linked up then with Kurdish fighters to encircle the jihadists. A 100,000-strong force of Iraqi military units, Shi'ite forces and Kurdish fighters, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, has fought since October in the Mosul campaign. The jihadist group has lost most of the cities it captured in northern and western Iraq in 2014 and 2015. In Syria, it still holds Raqqa city as its stronghold, as well as most of Deir al-Zor province. But it is losing ground to an array of separate enemies, including U.S.-backed forces and the Russian-backed Syrian army. It has carried out bombings in Iraqi and Syrian cities as its caliphate has shrunk. The bombings in Hajjaj village, north of Tikrit, late on Wednesday were not immediately claimed, but are similar to attacks carried out in recent months by ISIS. In November deadly and apparently diversionary bomb attacks by the group hit Tikrit and Samarra, both north of Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraq would continue hitting ISIS targets in Syria and in neighbouring countries if they give their approval. The Iraqi air force has struck ISIS targets over the border in Syria. Abadi on Feb. 24 announced the first Iraqi air strike on Syrian territory, targeting Islamic State positions in retaliation for bomb attacks in Baghdad. Posted by: gorb 2017-03-17 |
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