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Iraq
Iraqi forces poised for final Tikrit assault
2015-03-16
[Hurriyet Daily News] Iraqi commanders were plotting a strategy for flushing out the few remaining 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 (ISIL) from central Tikrit, a city one commander said on March 14 would be liberated within three days.

Iraqi commanders were plotting a strategy for flushing out the few remaining ISIL from central Tikrit, a city one commander said Saturday would be liberated within three days.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Just put the artillery hub to hub, and walk it across slowly, so that even the rubble gets pulverized, leaving no hiding places (unlike Stalingrad).
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-03-16 20:07  

#7  Saddam's mausoleum is now up in the air.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-03-16 17:32  

#6  Actually, IS recently blew up his mausoleum. The Sunnis moved the body before that, tho.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-03-16 17:29  

#5  Saddam must be spinning in his grave.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-03-16 14:33  

#4  Doesn't the Iraqi army have artillery? Just turn the center of the city into rubble.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-03-16 09:20  

#3  The Red Army gobbled Berlin, a city five or six times larger than Stalingrad in just two weeks.
Posted by: JFM   2015-03-16 09:12  

#2  If they could get some of those M-1s back from ISIS, they could just roll into town and blast them out of their rat holes.

Just finished Stephen Ambrose's "Citizen Soldiers" and the latter chapters are almost a textbook on how to conduct urban warfare. It is pretty messy on the townscape but it does root them out and keep casualties down...it involves tanks and a willingness to blow up a building instead of assaulting it.

Perchance the destruction of property that AI is sniveling about is just good doctrinal urban warfare behavior.
Posted by: Mystic   2015-03-16 02:03  

#1  Both the Kurds + Iraqi Army are repor claiming more US Airstrikes are needed to finally take Tikrit from the ISIS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-03-16 00:46  

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