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2016-10-29 Iraq

Iraqis find bomb factory, tunnels on long road to Mosul

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-29 01:22|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 sending armored suicide truck bombs trundling across the arid plains.

:)

Posted by Shipman 2016-10-29 05:53|| 2016-10-29 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 across the arid plains

I keep thinking of the song from "Oklahoma", but I just can't get 'Mosul' to rhyme.

Posted by Pappy 2016-10-29 11:20|| 2016-10-29 11:20|| Front Page Top

#3 These are medievalists - why not simply surround it, besiege them, and bomb and starve them the way Putin is doing Aleppo?

Shia want to kill off the Sunnis anyway, and this way they don't actually have to grind it out, they just hang on the periphery and loot, which suits them well. After enough are dad, the Shia will be happy to move in and take the homes as spoils of war. They've been doing that tribal stuff for centuries, why expect them to change?

I bet the Kurds would be happy to watch the Shia and Sunni (and Turks) kill each other off as long as they are left out of it and can consolidate and defend the Kurdish/Yadzidi/Other areas to the east, north, and west-northwest.

Posted by OldSpook 2016-10-29 11:32|| 2016-10-29 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Ohhhhhhh olde Mosul
With jihad thundering the plains
and the grazing sheep
they sure smell sweet
and we pray
ulululu all day!

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-10-29 13:34|| 2016-10-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

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