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| Build up to Mosul: Iraqi Army forces arrive in Makhmour | |
| 2016-02-13 | |
| [Rudaw] A convoy of Iraqi soldiers arrived, as planned, on the Makhmour front on Thursday. Kurdish officials said the deployment is in cooperation with locals. The military brigade is reportedly from the Iraqi Army's 15th Division which is being deployed on the Makhmour front as part of the preparations underway for the long-anticipated operation to force 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.... (ISIS) forces of Evil from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the Iraqi commander for the Mosul operation Najmadin Jbouri told a presser. Speaking to Rudaw Najat Ali, the top Kurdish commander on that front, said that Iraqi soldiers were permitted entry and the deployment was in done in coordination with Peshmerga forces. "The brigade is here for the Mosul operation and will leave the region after that," Ali explained. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... Iraq's defense ministry said earlier this week that it would deploy some 4,500 soldiers to the Makhmour front for the Mosul operation. The majority of the forces are reportedly Sunni Arabs trained by Americans and coalition forces.
More soldiers were deployed there on Friday, said an officer who is part of the security command tasked with retaking Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, from the Islamic State group (IS). A ceremony was held to mark their deployment in Makhmur, which is within territory controlled by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish government. Iraqi officers have said the plan was to increase the number of federal Iraqi forces in Makhmur to 4,500. | |
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