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| Iraq |
| Fear of ISIS human shield in Mosul drives civilians out of their homes |
| 2016-11-19 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Around 200 people fleeing from the war-torn city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... were forced to stay overnight at the makeshift camp of Omar Qamchi on Friday, 12 km southeast of cit, waiting to be moved to official camps. This comes at a time where tens of thousands of civilians has fled the ongoing war in Mosul as the US-backed Iraqi offensive to retake the city from the so-called 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.... enters its second month. Most of the families fled on Thursday, but for some the short journey took them more than a week, moving only under the cover at night. A fleeing family said they fled their village, 3 km away from Mosul, when the holy warrior group threatened to take them to Mosul city to be used as human shield. ISIS had taken an estimated 1,600 civilians to Mosul to shield themselves from |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 200 people fleeing tens of thousands of civilians has fled Most of the families fled on Thursday A fleeing family said they fled their village I'm sensing the origin of nomadism. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-11-19 13:37 |
| #1 Civilians fleeing is actually a good thing. More elbow room for actual ops. Maybe recruit a few as guides. And reduces the ability of ISIS to hide by reducing the size of the "pool" they are in. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2016-11-19 11:47 |