The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/18/2014 12:08:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Both Iraq and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have claimed a rare victory over ISIS this morning, the first in many months of setbacks and collapses. According to both, the Iraqi flag flies once more over the Mosul Dam, a critical piece of infrastructure and a potential time bomb that could kill as many as 500,000 Iraqis if destroyed:
Iraqi state television reported Monday that Iraqi national and Kurdish “peshmerga” forces had retaken the key Mosul dam from Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but the fighting didn’t appear to be over.
If confirmed, reclamation of the nation’s largest dam would be a hugely symbolic and strategic victory in the months-long battle against ISIS, which has wrested control of a vast swath of north and west Iraq and eastern Syria.
The reports on State TV quoted a spokesman for the Iraqi military, but peshmerga fighters told CBS News they were advancing on the dam complex slowly and cautiously amid concerns that ISIS fighters might have left behind IEDs or mines, and possibly rigged parts of the dam itself with explosives.
Fox News reports that they have confirmation from multiple sources that the whole dam has now been liberated from ISIS:
Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have wrested control of the vital Mosul Dam, the largest in Iraq, from Islamic State militants, a senior official in the peshmerga forces told Fox News Monday.
Spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi told The Associated Press the troops were backed by aerial support, but he didn’t specify whether there were U.S. airstrikes during the battle, adding that the troops “fully liberated” the dam Monday and “hoisted the Iraqi flag over it.”
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Hopefully they will kill every ISIS stooge along the way.
If Iraqis and Kurds manage to defeat these ISIS animals I hope they dispose of them before the one’s who traveled from the west to participate have a chance to scamper back to their flat screens & jello shots.
I would have to say well done to the Iraqi and Kurdish forces. Critical infrastructure recovered intact (booby traps and sabotage not withstanding).
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Good news.
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