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Army commander says recaptured 28 districts out of 38 targeted in Mosul
[Iraq News] An Iraqi army commander has said his forces completed "two thirds" of its mission against 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.... turbans in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... by Monday as troops invaded more districts to clear the region from the myrmidons. Abdul-Ghani al-Assadi, commander of the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces, said his forces completed "two thirds" of missions assigned to them as part of the Mosul liberation campaign. He said in statements that his forces took over 28 districts out of 38 on their targets list. Earlier on Monday, the special operations command at the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces said they invaded al-Sekak district. Its senior commander, Maan al-Saadi, was quoted by Almirbad news website saying troops were positioning at the heart of the district, engaging in intense fights with IS myrmidons. Iranian channel al-Alam’s website said the ICTF became closer to the nearby al-Abar district. Iraqi government forces, backed by paramilitary troops and a U.S.-led coalition, recaptured eastern Mosul from IS in January after three months of fighting, and launched another offensive mid February to retake the western region. Troops have been struggling to fully retake central Mosul’s Old City, a densely-populated and structured area which military generals view as vital for victory over IS in that region. They specifically eye the area’s Grand Nuri Mosque where IS supreme leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... proclaimed the group’s takeover of Iraq in 2014. Maj. Gen. Najm al-Jubouri, head of the Joint Operations Command’s Mosul operations, said in statements last week that his troops became in control over 90 percent of the "western axis", and continue to advance in central Mosul. Several foreign big shots from the group have been killed in Posted by: Fred 2017-04-11 |
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