Posted on 11/13/2015 5:07:32 AM PST by BeauBo
The leader of Iraqi Kurds declared Friday that the Iraqi town of Sinjar has been liberated from ISIS militants.
..."This operation has moved perhaps faster than some may have thought," said CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who is traveling with the troops.
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I doubt that they will be overwhelmed with POWs.
How many ISIS killed? I’m afraid most of them just blend with the civilians and pretend to be non-ISIS to fight another day
Do what is necessary. Leave the media and the lawyers behind. I don’t think the Kurds will Mirandize ISIS anymore than the Russians...and they certainly will not transport them to an island paradise, feed them free-range goat, falafel, and give them Kindles.
I would think the civilians who had to live under those demons wouldn't be so willing to allow them to blend in. These folks are very tribal.. they know who's among them.
“How many ISIS killed?”
A hundred ISIS were conservatively estimated to be killed on the first day. No report yet on the second (and final) day of the assault, but I would guess that a bunch withdrew overnight.
They will be picking additional bodies from the rubble as they clear the city of mines and IEDs.
#BREAKING: BBC’s @MuirJim is in #Sinjar town now; says there is no sign of #ISIS, but Kurd’s are weariness of traps @BBCWorld
Looks more like ISIS bugged out. Or. lie in ambush.
“Looks more like ISIS bugged out.”
There is a growing chance of ISIS collapse in areas, as their ammo runs out. The Kurds in Syria have cut off Raqaa from the North, and the Regime is starting to close their resupply from the West. Russian air cover may have suppressed air drops into Syria that are “captured” by ISIS. The Russians have also deliberately targeted their ammo stockpiles and heavy weapons.
They don’t manufacture any ammo.
The point is how did they escape? We should have been overhead straffing the retreat.
“how did they escape? We should have been overhead straffing the retreat.”
An AC-130 gunship could have loitered overhead all night, and destroyed any vehicle leaving.
They might have been escaping prisoners or other non-combatants though, or some friendlies in pursuit of bad guys. With our restrictive rules of engagement, I am pretty sure that there would be no blanket kill order.
Eh...no excuse in my opinion.
If it is any consolation, I am pretty sure that the returning Yazidis and other Kurdish forces will be thorough in their cleanup. As in a complete purge of the Sunnis who collaborated with ISIS, their families, and the horse they rode in on.
Many of the local ISIS garrison may well have been the local Sunnis, who thought that they would get rich quick, by joining ISIS and stealing all their neighbors property, rather than brainwashed young foreigners.
Sinjar is lost to the Sunnis now. The ISIS collaborators/eager recruits may as well go live with relatives elsewhere, or head for a lifetime of welfare in Germany, as poor victims of American imperialism - because they won’t be safe in Sinjar for the next few decades.
I see some other reports that ISIS fighters were also fleeing from the larger city of Tal Afar, between Sinjar and Mosul.
Maybe they are reinforcing Mosul, where they still have ammo stockpiles and cover from the air.
One thing you can say about the Kurds, they get their way. /rimshot
I think the chances are good the locals know who they are and would carry out arrests leading to trial.
Washington Post now reporting:
““A lot of them fled last night,†said Lt. Adnan Ismail Yasin, manning a sandbagged position on the eastern side of the city. “When some were trying to get out, airstrikes destroyed them.—
Rudaw, a Kuridish news agency reports:
“...more than 300 wounded jihadists were transferred to the city (Mosul) after Peshmerga forces pushed the militants out of Shingal (Sinjar).
At least 126 bodies of militants of the Islamic State were taken to ISIS-held Mosul.”
Very few prisoners - only three according to some reports.
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