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Civilian Deaths In Mosul Lead U.S. And Iraqi Forces To Change Tactics Against ISIS
NPR ^ | April 5, 2017 | JANE ARRAF

Posted on 04/08/2017 10:51:30 PM PDT by BeauBo

the Iraqi military will slow an offensive pushing into the crowded old district of the city to try to minimize civilian casualties. The new tactics will mean fewer U.S. and Iraqi air strikes.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; mosu
Looks like they will extend the timeframe for the Mosul Operation.

The new approach seems to be to walk the cordon in closer around the City and Old Town, for a bit more of a siege, rather than sweeping on line from the South.

Coalition doesn't want any more embarrassing mass casualties of civilians from air strikes (ISIS sets them up), and the Iraqis were taking lots of casualties from the fast-paced approach.

I think they should still clear the city this year, likely this Summer.

1 posted on 04/08/2017 10:51:30 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

If you are living among isis filth and not actively killing them one by one or as many as possible, you are one or more of them.

There is no excuse to allow islamic filth to rule you.


2 posted on 04/08/2017 11:12:59 PM PDT by soycd
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To: soycd

Easily typed from over here.


3 posted on 04/08/2017 11:23:39 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BeauBo

The only reason the enemy goes to the trouble of setting up civilian casualties is because of guaranteed msm coverage to support the enemy cause.

Want the practice to stop? Take action against the msm that plays this game.

They lie to us and misrepresent situations to us on a constant basis and never any repercussions for doing so.

And we wonder why the destructionist filth infest everything and every where.


4 posted on 04/08/2017 11:27:26 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: 9YearLurker

>Easily typed from over here.

Of course. So far we have not let islam take hold. They did. They pay the price.

I don’t ever plan to allow the filthy islam come up the nearest highway.


5 posted on 04/08/2017 11:36:43 PM PDT by soycd
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Good grief..they train their kids to kill....and they all dress alike....


6 posted on 04/08/2017 11:41:19 PM PDT by caww
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To: Grimmy

Needs to be repeated over and over again.....

..”The only reason the enemy goes to the trouble of setting up civilian casualties is because of guaranteed msm coverage to support the enemy cause.”.....


7 posted on 04/08/2017 11:44:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: BeauBo
The Russians took Berlin faster than "we" can take Mosul.

America's ability to fight to a decisive victory ended when Truman fired MacArthur. Bad decision. If MacArthur had prevailed, we wouldn't even be talking about "North Korea" today.

And then, of course, we all know about Vietnam

And here today in 2017 we can't push a few handfuls of inbred moronic mohammedans out of a turd world backwater.

8 posted on 04/09/2017 2:21:56 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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How many years have we been in Mosul? Every person, goat and beetle should have been eliminated a very long time ago.


9 posted on 04/09/2017 5:58:44 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BeauBo

The Iraqi Shiite Army is in no hurry to help Sunnis in Mosul.


10 posted on 04/09/2017 11:05:50 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: BeauBo

Go Line Backer on them, then go in and sweep up the remains.


11 posted on 04/09/2017 4:43:47 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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