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2017-01-03 Iraq

Iraq’s Army Could Defeat ISIS in Mosul -- But Lose Control of the Country

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Posted by Fred 2017-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 RINO Guard

Posted by Shipman 2017-01-03 01:32|| 2017-01-03 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Everyone is getting ready for the reckoning

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-03 02:31|| 2017-01-03 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 'Losing control' would appear to indicate someone actually had control.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-03 08:05|| 2017-01-03 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 'Losing control' would appear to indicate someone actually had control. Posted by: Besoeker Concur, we never established control over that city. ISIS is the only force to maintain control for any amount of time...

Great article - and timely since the Iraqi SOF, CT units and Federal Police attacked into the Industrial zone on Mosul's East Bank this morning.

Posted by Tennessee 2017-01-03 10:58|| 2017-01-03 10:58|| Front Page Top

#5 from the link this para

One senior Pentagon officer with access to daily battle reports on the Mosul fight says the battle for the city has been so intense that the Golden Division’s veteran battalions “are suffering upwards of 50 percent casualties. If that rate stays constant,” he told me, “the division could become combat ineffective in a little over a month, and perhaps even sooner.”

If that is true, the Golden Division could be ineffective before the battle is over. Implications of that for the govt of Iraq are bad, very bad

Posted by lord garth 2017-01-03 11:13|| 2017-01-03 11:13|| Front Page Top

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