Posted on 12/22/2015 5:17:46 PM PST by Fred Nerks
Iraqi forces humiliate ISIL supporters captured in Ramadi
By ninemsn
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WATCH NOW December 23, 2015: Footage emerging online alleges to show Iraqi soldiers taking dozens of ISIL-supporters prisoner as they advance on the city of Ramadi.
Iraqi forces have turned the tables on ISIL sympathisers captured in the city of Ramadi, taunting prisoners and forcing them to kneel in the sand and cower in fear.
The Iraqi army advanced into the Ramadi city centre overnight, backed by US-led coalition air strikes and also supported by the police and Sunni tribes opposed to the jihadists.
A video filmed by soldiers shows a large column of captured ISIL supporters kneel in the dirt in single file, their hands handcuffed with their heads bowed as an Iraqi army commander laughs and jeers in their faces.
More footage captured by Iraqi state TV and on fighter's smartphones shows soldiers driving down the deserted streets of the bombed-out city, cautiously entering homes to find possible booby traps and retrieving shells and rockets from abandoned ISIL positions.
December 23, 2015: An Iraqi soldier explains how their relationship with the Russian and US-led coalition forces have become important in the battle against ISIL.
Retaking Ramadi, an insurgent bastion 125km west of Baghdad, would be the Iraqi federal forces' most significant victory in the war against ISIL.
The city has been held by ISIL since May and was turned into a fortress of booby traps, sniper nets and machine gun posts.
The city is no stranger to warfare and was the location of some of the deadliest fighting against US troops a decade ago.
Iraqi counter-terrorism spokesman Sabah al-Noman told AFP he expects the city to be cleared and retaken "in the coming 72 hours".
WATCH NOW December 23, 2015: Iraqi soldiers have launched a ground attack on ISIL forces in Ramadi in a brave attempt to reclaim the city.
"We did not face strong resistance, only snipers and suicide bombers and this is a tactic we expected," he said.
A victory in Ramadi would leave Mosul, Tal Afar and Fallujah as the only major Iraqi cities still in ISIL hands and further undermine the group's claim that the caliphate it proclaimed last year is expanding.
Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said successive operations have shrunk the area controlled by ISIL from nearly 40 percent of Iraq last year to 17 percent.
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WATCH NOW December 23, 2015: Footage emerging online alleges to show Iraqi soldiers taking dozens of ISIL-supporters prisoner as they advance on the city of Ramadi.
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Iraqi forces have turned the tables on ISIL sympathisers captured in the city of Ramadi, taunting prisoners and forcing them to kneel in the sand and cower in fear.
The Iraqi army advanced into the Ramadi city centre overnight, backed by US-led coalition air strikes and also supported by the police and Sunni tribes opposed to the jihadists.
A video filmed by soldiers shows a large column of captured ISIL supporters kneel in the dirt in single file, their hands handcuffed with their heads bowed as an Iraqi army commander laughs and jeers in their faces.
More footage captured by Iraqi state TV and on fighter's smartphones shows soldiers driving down the deserted streets of the bombed-out city, cautiously entering homes to find possible booby traps and retrieving shells and rockets from abandoned ISIL positions.
WATCH NOW December 23, 2015: An Iraqi soldier explains how their relationship with the Russian and US-led coalition forces have become important in the battle against ISIL.
Retaking Ramadi, an insurgent bastion 125km west of Baghdad, would be the Iraqi federal forces' most significant victory in the war against ISIL.
The city has been held by ISIL since May and was turned into a fortress of booby traps, sniper nets and machine gun posts.
The city is no stranger to warfare and was the location of some of the deadliest fighting against US troops a decade ago.
Iraqi counter-terrorism spokesman Sabah al-Noman told AFP he expects the city to be cleared and retaken "in the coming 72 hours".
WATCH NOW December 23, 2015: Iraqi soldiers have launched a ground attack on ISIL forces in Ramadi in a brave attempt to reclaim the city.
"We did not face strong resistance, only snipers and suicide bombers and this is a tactic we expected," he said.
A victory in Ramadi would leave Mosul, Tal Afar and Fallujah as the only major Iraqi cities still in ISIL hands and further undermine the group's claim that the caliphate it proclaimed last year is expanding.
Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said successive operations have shrunk the area controlled by ISIL from nearly 40 percent of Iraq last year to 17 percent.
© ninemsn 2015
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/23/09/27/iraqi-forces-capture-scores-of-isil-supporters-in-ramadi#k57JJcxdDIWTWEKt.99
putting the shoe on the other foot?
ISIL? Is Barry’s teleprompter writing this text?
It’s an Australian News website. If a rose is a rose by any other name, then ISIS & ISIL stink just the same.
Meaningless until they start doing plasma trasnfusions with pigs
Good.
Let them shake in their boots.
They know what muslims are capable of.
If they were captured by the US, they’d be getting luxury accommodations.
You got something against pigs?
Meaningless until they start doing plasma trasnfusions with pigs
You got something against pigs?
Moslems think pigs are unclean. McCarthur won the war in the phillipines in 1900 by coating his bullets with pig oil. The moslems there thought if they were touched by the bullets they would not go to heaven. they were spooked.
blood transfusions with pig blood is another varient of the same idea.
The Iraqi soldier explaining their relationship with Russia, was from a Vice News report, available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_iChdMLOI
The gist is: They should thank Russia for putting pressure on the Americans to get serious about bombing ISIS. Now if the they identify a target to the Americans, they blow it up - not like before.
The Russian air strikes and conventional ground forces are all in Syria, but the Americans have changed their engagement policies in Iraq. Now ISIS is getting their butts kicked.
From 40% of Iraq, ISIS is now down to 17%. With the fall of Ramadi, the only cities remaining under ISIS control are Fallujah (next up for the Shia), Tal Afar (next up for the Kurds) and Mosul (the end game for ISIS in Iraq).
“...taunting prisoners and forcing them to kneel in the sand and cower in fear.”
No, really?
Well, that’ll teach ‘em not to behead old men, bury children alive, and rape/execute women.
Ouch. The horror.
The question is simple, will the “Iraqi” forces allow Sunnis to occupy and secure the land taken back from ISIS?
If not, the USA ( and Russia) are wasting their time in the war.
Are you suggesting victory over the Islamic-state fanatics will lead to the sunni-shia factions in the army fighting each other?
Allah is greater. Why should we worry?
Without the Sunna as allies the Iraqis ( Who in fact are Shia militia)will never defeat ISIS, who are largely Sunni fanatics. Gradually Isis will assimilate all the Sunnis in the area, and the state of flux we now have will have become a missed opportunity.
Patreus had it right , working to bring the Sunni tribes into alliance. Obama saw how effective that was and promptly go rid of Patreus....so we know who is in the wood pile.But Putin does not want a united Sunni front either, he is, after all a, Shiite proxy, and I am beginnng to think that Obama is as well, but I do not know why particularly, which bothers a bit.Maybe they promised him another Nobel.
...without the shia as allies the Iraqi army will never defeat ISIS, who are largely sunni fanatics. Gradually, sunni and shia will attempt to destroy each other, and the state of flux we have now will simply continue...until, with our help, islam will crawl back into the hole it came out of, for another hundred years, while they contemplate the dust, rubble and ashes their cults have created. And blame it on us.
A head for a head: Afghan militia decapitate four ISIS fighters - after extremists killed their own men in the same brutal way
Rubble, dust and ashes all the way.
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