Posted on 09/06/2014 9:56:05 PM PDT by GonzoII
(BBC) -- Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have recaptured a strategically important mountain from Islamic State (IS) militants, helped by US air strikes.
Mount Zartak overlooks a plain that stretches to Mosul, the city seized by IS in June.
The mountain fell to the Islamists last month when they staged a lightning attack on Iraqi Kurdistan.
Since then Kurdish "peshmerga" fighters have been slowly pushing back, assisted by US air power.
Mosul is a mainly Sunni city which Kurdish forces say they do not intend to recapture on their own.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Iraq says Mount Zartak was retaken in a short, sharp battle that left more than 30 IS fighters dead.
Under the gun The Kurdish forces said US air strikes had made a "big difference".
Nearby villages still occupied by the Islamic militants are now at the mercy of Kurdish guns that dominate the entire plain of Nineveh, our correspondent adds.
The commander of the Kurdish elite commandos who took the mountain, Gene Aziz Oweisi, told the BBC that its capture was important, not only for the defence of Kurdistan.
"For the Iraqis it's important too because it's a step towards taking back Mosul," he said.
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I look forward to the day when we can say this evil group IS was.
Obama is not happy about this.
Glad you posted this. Kurds are still saying Canada & U.S. are not arming them well. They need heavy weapons to match IS and not thru Baghdad that slows down the process. Hope this link works. —http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/kurds-tell-baird-they-need-heavy-weapons-to-fight-islamic-state-1.1990535
Obama is not happy about this.
No, he’s not happy at all. He must be beside himself.
But you’ll still have the rest of islam to contend with.
> Kurdish “peshmerga” fighters have been slowly pushing back, assisted by US air power.
The Kurds are the Ghurkas of the middle east.....
No doubt he’s frantically busy planning strategies to covertly divert more arms and funding to the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, and who knows.
No doubt hes frantically busy planning strategies to covertly divert more arms and funding to the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda, and who knows.
I’m sure he is. How long before that’s exposed? I can’t believe that no one has come out and exposed the evil bastard for what he’s doing.
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