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| US officials: Ill-equipped Iraqi Army to delay anti-ISIS offensive in Mosul |
| 2016-06-06 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An exhausted and ill-equipped Iraqi Army will most likely delay for months a long-planned major offensive against ISIS in Iraq’s second largest city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , American officials told the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in an interview published Friday. While President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... was keen to reduce US involvement in the Middle East especially in Iraq, the United States in the last two years has increased its logistic support to further equip the Iraqi Army, which has struggled to funnel basics like food, water and arms to its troops. The Americans are currently helping with organizing logistics by insisting on the Iraqis to implement measures to enhance a supply chain that would run over 200 miles from Defense Ministry depots in the capital Baghdad area to the ISIS-occupied Mosul. "Logistics is one of the things we are most concerned about, so we look to do everything we can to keep the timeline on track," Col. Christopher Garver, the United States front man for the coalition fighting the ISIS in Iraq, told the New York Times. The American commanders told the paper that without US help, the offensive against Mosul would most likely fail. The officials also described Iraq’s scorching summer heat as a major impediment. Also, a much slower pace of work is expected due to the start of the holy month of Ramadan for Moslems on Monday. Moslems who fast abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having martial relations from dawn until sunset. "A lull won’t be sexy, but it’s the hard and important work that needs to be done to generate combat power," said Col. Steven Warren, who until this month was the top American military front man in Iraq. While Americans prioritized attacking ISIS in Mosul, Iraqi government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi launched a vast offensive on May 22-23 against Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... which lies only 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad and is one of ISIS’s main bastions. Abadi’s decision came after a rising domestic pressure to stop the threat emanating from Fallujah after a series of bloody bombings claimed by ISIS in the capital Baghdad. Two weeks after the launch of the operation to recapture Fallujah, Iraqi forces said on Sunday they have secured the southern edge of the city. Backed by US-led air strikes, Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism service has over the past week attempted to break into the center of the city but has been slowed by tough resistance, as well as concerns over the presence in central Fallujah of an estimated 50,000 civilians. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Mosul has pretty much been an afterthought for a long, long time. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-06-06 13:48 |
| #5 the 3rd battle of Fallujah will be on going the who month of Ramadan a lot of the fasting in Fallujah itself will be simply because the city is running short of food and water with respect to the Iraqi Army and the Shiite militias, they have probably already obtained get a fatwa permitting them to eat and drink during daylight during this Ramadan but I haven't seen any reports on this |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-06-06 11:16 |
| #4 The Iraqi Army is ill-led rather than ill-equipped. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2016-06-06 11:12 |
| #3 IMO, nope. ISIS will just run away "They advance, we retreat". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-06-06 09:52 |
| #2 The fight in Falluja will be a Pyrrhic victory for the winner - either ISIS or the Iraqi/Shia Army...both will be fought to a frazzle. The fighting season will end early this year for the Iraqis...other than a truck load of dire threats that will last through the fall. Maybe Mosul, maybe next year. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-06-06 09:22 |
| #1 "Ill equipped" because all the equipment USA gives them ends in ISIS hands? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-06-06 03:44 |