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| Iraq | |
| Mosul Offensive against IS Group | |
| 2015-01-24 | |
| [AnNahar] The United States and Iraq are preparing to retake Iraq's second-largest city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group by this summer, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. A group of Kurdish fighters and other Western-trained forces should be ready to launch the offensive by the spring or summer, the head of the U.S. military's Central Command General Lloyd Austin told the Journal. "If we did things alone or with some of the other allies on the ground, it could move faster," he told the newspaper. "But the Iraqis have to do this themselves." The general said he had not decided whether to recommend that U.S. forces accompany Iraqis on the offensive. The U.S. air strikes have recently focused on putting pressure on IS-held Mosul. Kurdish peshmerga forces have also launched successful offensives against IS-held roads near Mosul, which is in the north of the country. The city once held well over a million people but now is likely a fraction of that size. The general told the newspaper that the international coalition fighting IS has made significant headway in its battle to roll back the group's control over large swaths of the country. Defense officials say their air strikes have killed thousands of jihadists. The Iraqi government recently asked for more weapons to help its military that partially collapsed in early stages of the fight against IS.
Gen. Lloyd Austin, the head of the military's Central Command, told The Wall Street Journal that the international campaign against Islamic State has inflicted significant damage. Opposing forces have reclaimed about 300 square miles of territory in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... province. "Two Iraqi military divisions will advance to take the lead in Nineveh battle," he assured. | |
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