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| Iraq’s Gold Division may liberate Mosul, but at what cost? |
| 2016-12-25 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The Iraqi force tasked with liberating the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from ISIS is overstretched, suffered great loss and exhausted and is putting a few hundred new recruits through a crash course for battle. That is the elite Golden Division. The defeat of ISIS and its expulsion from the second largest city was entrusted to this force of 10,000 trained soldiers from Iraq’s different ethnic backgrounds. And they have been on the forefront since the offensive was launched on October 17. |
| Posted by:Fred |