Posted on 03/09/2017 3:59:28 AM PST by huldah1776
The ISIS suicide bomber drove his car packed with explosives at an Iraqi patrol
One of the Iraqi troops blocked the road with his lightly-protected Humvee
The suicide bomber detonated his explosives as he approached the Iraqi
ISIS is completely surrounded in Mosul by Iraqi and allied rebel groups
An Iraqi soldier saved his comrades lives by diverting a suicide bomber's desperate attack in Mosul by blocking the road with his Humvee. The attack was filmed by an ISIS drone and later uploaded onto the internet. In the shocking footage, the car bomb can be seen approaching from the top of the screen and was heading towards a group of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit forces involved in the battle to retake the city.
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The Trump Effect.
Demoralized Iraqi troops who surrendered and fled without a fight before ISIS when Obama set the tone for US foreign policy now have the fighting spirit under Trump.
ISIS has their own drones? Can’t we shoot them down, or better still, track them to their landing areas, or even trace back to where they are being controlled from, and bomb the crap out of the command centers?
They need to hack into ISIS drones.
Good point!
I'm pretty sure we're talking about the cheap sort of quadcoptor camera drones you can buy on Amazon. The operator of the drone was probably within visual range of the whole event when it went down.
FTA: It is not known if either driver survived
How stupid is that writer!
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