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| Iraq |
| US-led coalition trains 5,000 Iraqi forces to join anti-ISIS campaign in Mosul |
| 2017-02-18 |
| [ARA] The Iraq security forces have nearly 5,000 more members to assist as hold forces in Eastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and eventually in the fight against ISIS in Western Mosul following recent graduation ceremonies at Taji, Besmaya, Erbil, and Al Asad Airbase, the US-led anti-ISIS coalition said on Friday. At Taji and Besmaya, nearly 2,000 Nineveh coppers were trained by Australian and New Zealand soldiers and are poised to assist in the fight against ISIS in Mosul. "Task Group Taji IV is proud to see them develop into an effective security force, ready to take the fight to ISIS," said Australian Col. Richard Vagg, commander TG Taji IV. "The police trainees are determined to defend their country against ISIS," said Col. Vagg. "They’re young and determined ‐ many of them come from Mosul where they’ve lost family members to ISIS’s campaign of terror." Over the past month, the Coalition provided infantry-based tactics, techniques and procedures to men who will play a major role in defending, holding and stabilizing areas liberated from 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.... ’s (ISIS) myrmidons. In Besmaya, Spanish Coalition members led Nineveh police forces’ training. In addition, 3,000 Iraqi security forces graduated from patrol and clearing techniques training at Al Asad Airbase led by the efforts of Danish, British, Latvian, Estonian and American forces. The government of Iraq, supported by the US-led multi-national coalition, launched the Mosul offensive in Oct. 2016 to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city which was taken by ISIS in June 2014. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Well, there's this (and the subsequent mandatory training) for a start... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-02-18 13:10 |
| #6 Yarn us a Yarn Pappy! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-02-18 12:43 |
| #5 Good point Pappy! I'll bite. How do you know? |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-02-18 10:49 |
| #4 It takes a while for institutional changes to take place. Especially in the DOD. Ask me how I know. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-02-18 10:37 |
| #3 Uhmm, Pappy, that may have been true under Obama, but now with Trump in charge... |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-02-18 09:48 |
| #2 Yes. But this time they've been given sensitivity training. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-02-18 07:48 |
| #1 Weren't similar things done before? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-18 03:29 |