Posted on 04/07/2016 11:48:39 AM PDT by jazusamo
The much-awaited liberation of Mosul from ISIS stalled late last month almost as soon as bullets flew, when Iraqi government troops once again fled from the black-clad terrorist army, members of the broad coalition poised to retake the key city told FoxNews.com this week.
The Iraqi army, which was heavily criticized for abandoning posts – and weapons – as ISIS moved in on Mosul in June of 2014, had begun taking small villages on the outskirts after Baghdad announced the campaign March 24. But the liberation effort, which was to include Shia and Sunni militias, Kurds, Christians and Yazidis with U.S.-led coalition support, was quickly paused when the opposition struck back.
“The Iraqi Army commenced an assault on ISIS strongholds around Mosul, but when ISIS fired back, the Iraqi Army ran away and the assaults ended,” a western, Iraq-based security and defense specialist told FoxNews.com of last week’s failed offensive. “So now they are regrouping and rethinking their next options.”
Iraqi officials claimed the operation came to a halt when they determined they needed reinforcements to hold onto the villages they took. Iraqi Army Maj. Gen. Najm Abdullah al-Jubbouri said ISIS fighters had dug a network of tunnels and had suicide bombers and truck bombs waiting for them.
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Don’t they want THEIR virgins?
Islam is winning.
Agreed...Sad that we train them, equip them with modern weapons, support them and they still won’t fight.
Moot point. Mosul likely won’t exist by next year. Mosul Dam is crumbling, can’t be fixed, and will likely collapse.
The much-awaited liberation of Mosul from ISIS stalled late last month almost as soon as bullets flew, when Iraqi government troops once again fled from the black-clad terrorist army, members of the BROAD COALITION poised to retake the key city told FoxNews.com this week.
Just imagine if there was no BROAD COALITION!-)
Annnnnny moment..
I’m hoping someone has set up cameras recording 24/7.
Might not help stop it, but if you know an even that big is coming, just takes a few hundred $$$ to at least record it happening.
One would think that after 12 years of US training and support they’d be at least a FEW reliable and combat effective Iraqi army units. If it were not for the various Iraqi militias ISIS would have taken Baghdad long ago.
“So now they are regrouping and rethinking their next options.”
If it doesn’t contain carpet bombing or nukes they
aren’t considering all their options.
For Sale: Iraqi Army AK 74. Never fired, only dropped once.
CC
I want to know who is responsible for this “training”
after 12 years this is the result ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B2nSGkwW-Y
The “training” is being done by the same “contractors who do “job skills” training in the states. Mass incompetence.
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