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2008-05-05 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-05 11:05|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

Calls for genocide are out of bounds at Rantburg.

Way out of bounds.

Last warning.

Definitely last warning. Don't make us come up there!

Posted by wxjames 2008-05-05 11:29|| 2008-05-05 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Calls for genocide on Rantburg. Lovely.

Posted by gromky 2008-05-05 11:40|| 2008-05-05 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The statement that Mosul is completely under Al Qaeda control is BS.

The eastern half of the city is largely under control of the Kurds. The Western section closest to the river is largely Christian.

Most of the action is taking place in West (especially NW) Mosul.

I expect there will be a lot of searches and patroling in these areas, but not necessarily a lot of fighting.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-05-05 12:16|| 2008-05-05 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 There's been a lot of activity in Mosul and in the 'burbs as well. Mosul has never actually "fallen" to AQI but it is full of their associates.

This will not be Fallujah nor Basra. This will be individual by individual. And, I suspect, dead body by dead body. AQI has no where else to go.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2008-05-05 13:52|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2008-05-05 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought we already did the Mosul thing......

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-05-05 13:56|| 2008-05-05 13:56|| Front Page Top

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Posted by wxjames 2008-05-05 15:18|| 2008-05-05 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought we already did the Mosul thing......

Like fire ants, I guess. You need to keep applying the treatment or they come back.

Interesting that a post yesterday talked about US Special Forces whacking baddies near Mosul

Posted by SteveS 2008-05-05 16:37|| 2008-05-05 16:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Mosul is important to Iran as Basra is. Continual applications of weed killer is necessary as the people living there get back on their feet.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-05 17:03|| 2008-05-05 17:03|| Front Page Top

#9 yeah but we have already been thought this miosul shitseveral times. if the iraqi army can't hold off the insurgents then what is there use. especially since these ppl have been fight for 1000' of years maybe they could learn too aim alil nbetter or completely do away with them since we are goonna have bases there for yrs too come. the iraqis except for a few are bunch of fuckin imbeciles who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with a cannon

Posted by sinse 2008-05-05 17:50|| 2008-05-05 17:50|| Front Page Top

#10 IIRC, Yon started out covering Deuce-Four in Mosul and was there when Lt. Col. Kurilla got shot. We've had people in Mosul since and have been making progress. I've read that some of the rats driven from Baghdad and Anbar have relocated in Mosul. If that's true, we've got to eradicate that nest. Still, it's got to be a better situation that Basra if only since we've had boots on the ground there who could and did act, as opposed to the politically hamstrung and undermanned Brits in Basra. This is going to be a fight up there but it's going to end in our favor. I'm thinking that after this the days of open war with AQI will be over. There will still be hit-and-runs, maybe forever, but they won't have any ground they could even suggest is a "liberated zone" in Iraq. That is an extremely important fact, as the Malayan Emergency clearly showed.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-05 17:54|| 2008-05-05 17:54|| Front Page Top

#11 ION RIAN > POSSIBLE OUTCOMES OF A GEORGIAN-ABKAZIAN WAR.

* Small dedicated force or group can hide from larger opposing = enemy force, and fight on, from high mountain areas for a long time, as dependent of Aggressor's level of training and proficiencies.

* Reliance of THIRD PARTY POLITICS AND ORGANZATIONS, e.g. RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS [UNO?].

ASYMMETRIC WARFARE = RUSSO-CHINA "LOCAL/WAR ZONE" STRATEGEMS [anti-US].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-05 22:01|| 2008-05-05 22:01|| Front Page Top

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