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Iraq
Islamic State supreme leader’s speech admits defeat in Mosul
2017-03-02
As they themselves predicted. Now to meet the kaffir forces on that legendary plain so that Allah can give his remnant their miraculous victory.
[Iraq News] The 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s supreme leader has delivered a speech ordering his fighters to flee urban areas in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a presumable acknowledgement of defeat to U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and militias fighting to retake the city.

Alsumaria News quoted local sources saying that His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
made a "farewell speech" to his combatants in battlefields, ordering them to "flee and hide in mountainous areas" in Iraq and Syria. The text of the speech was disseminated among other speakers to read out to fighters at various areas in western Mosul.

The directives tell fighters to blow themselves up once encircled by Iraqi troops, the source claims, adding that senior commanders close to Baghdadi were moving on the borderline between Syria and Iraq. "The leaders of the so-called Mujahideen Shura (advisory) Council have all fled Nineveh and Tal Afar to Syria."

Iraqi forces have made remarkable gains since launching a renewed offensive on February 19th to retake western Mosul from IS myrmidons. The government said late January it had retaken the eastern side of the city following three months of fighting.

Military commanders from the Iraqi forces and the allied U.S.-led international military coalition have said IS resistance was remarkably weaker in the west compared to the east. Government forces became closer Tuesday to a government complex in central Mosul, having retaken the city’s airport, a major military base and a vital bridge linking both sides of the city.

Earlier this month, unconfirmed news claimed that Baghdadi, whose exact whereabouts remained unknown for long, had been seriously maimed when Arclight airstrikes targeted a big shotship meeting he chaired near the borders with Syria.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Perchance, we line up the gunships and Bradleys and do a no limit hunt as the rats leave Mosul.

Just tell the locals to stay inside for a while and let the ROE be "if it moves shoot"
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-03-02 16:13  

#5   I would prefer something that reverses slowly.

French tanks are faster in reverse than in forward gear.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-03-02 14:34  

#4  I would prefer something that reverses slowly. ;-)
Posted by: gorb   2017-03-02 14:02  

#3  A French tank. After we have run over the bad guys we switch to rear gear and run over them in reverse and this 27 times one for very of our t 27 reverse gears.
Posted by: JFM   2017-03-02 10:33  

#2  Islamic State supreme leader’s speech admits defeat in Mosul

Defeat to me would be all his followers would be staked down in a line and run over by a tank. Instead of sneaking away to fight another day. But I'll take what I can get for now.
Posted by: gorb   2017-03-02 09:40  

#1  "Tis but a flesh wound!"
Posted by: Frank G   2017-03-02 07:02  

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