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Sporadic clashes in Iraq's Mosul after victory declaration
[DAWN] Sporadic festivities are continuing in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, even after Iraq declared a "total victory" over the bully 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group in the city.
They used to be called Werewolves.
At least one Arclight airstrike hit the Old City, the scene of fierce final battles with IS, sending a plume of smoke into the air on Tuesday.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

Amnesia Amnesty International released a report saying that the conflict in Mosul has created a "civilian catastrophe," with the snuffies carrying out forced displacement, summary killings and the use of human shields.

It called for a commission to investigate crimes against civilians by all sides in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from jihadists.

"The horrors that the people of Mosul have witnessed and the disregard for human life by all parties to this conflict must not go unpunished," said Lynn Maalouf, director of Middle East research at Amnesia Amnesty International.
An Nahar adds:
The cost of victory has been enormous: much of Mosul in ruins, thousands dead and wounded and nearly half the city's population forced from their homes.

In Mosul's Old City, where buildings lie in ruins and burned-out cars and other debris choke the streets, security forces were still searching for remaining IS fighters.

"What we are doing today is just combing the area and clearing it of sleeper cells," Staff Lieutenant General Sami al-Aridhi, a senior commander in Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), said Tuesday.

"There are groups that are hiding in shelters," but they surrender or are killed, Aridhi said.
Posted by: Fred 2017-07-12
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