Posted on 05/31/2016 8:28:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Several hundred" innocent families were trapped in the center of the bloody battle for the Islamic State's Iraqi hub of Fallujah, used as human shields for the terror group, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday as a leading aid group called it a "human catastrophe."
The fighting left at least seven members of one family dead or wounded on Saturday, UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler told reporters. An estimated 50,000 people remained trapped.
"They are locking some families down inside the hospital building," Salem al Halbusi, who lived in Fallujah, told USA Today. "They are making people freak out over the (arrival of) Iraqi forces by telling them, 'The army and militia are coming to kill you all.'"
Iraqi forces battling their way into the city repelled a four-hour ISIS attack in the city's south on Tuesday, a day after first moving into the southern edges of the militant-held city with the help of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. The attack started at dawn in Fallujah's Nuaimiya area where Iraqi troops captured almost 85 percent of the ground the previous day, two officers with the special forces told The Associated Press.
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A great opportunity to employ our snipers.
This is nothing new for muzzies. They do it when they fire missiles at Israel. They also did it when we were fighting in Iraq.
Muzzies, like DemocRATS, hide behind women and children.
Innocent people died in Dresden. They died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s war, people die. More die if you try to protect them.
War crimes. Open and shut cases.
They died in Warsaw, Coventry and Rotterdam, too.
Yes they do, but do you dismiss what the ISIS terrorists do?
Just like Obama and the GOPe which made ISIS; -
always for themselves and always using voters/taxpayers
as fodder or worse.
Omit the word “reportedly” and the headline is accurate. The subhuman savages always use civilians as shields.
If I look at Dresden or Hiroshima, yes, the civilian population reaped the fruits of their support for their current regime. Add to that, many of the civilians were part of the ‘war machine’, working in factories. I can accept their casualties as justified.
But Fallujah is slightly different. Our occupation and subsequent evacuation of Fallujah has set up a situation where the local population has essentially been kidnapped by a group that (I presume) most don’t support.
This could get really bad, and I do feel for the civilians caught in the middle.
Fallujah could have been no problem...remember when they evacuated the city of civilians and cleaned out the gooners? There were actually 2 battles of Fallujah. If they were smart they would evacuate that shiithole and just let the air force level that place. Drop Daisy Cutters, MOABs, and clean out any old munitions out of he stock piles..
No way to evacuate it now. ISIS is holding the population hostage.
“Yes they do, but do you dismiss what the ISIS terrorists do?”
No I don’t. But know as long as they can do it they will. Pay the ransom they will kidnap again. Kill the kidnapper, his family, his dog and his friends, others will think twice.
Have to meet force with superior force.
All military jobs are now open to females. They would make good snipers.
There are no “innocent” islamists.
>No way to evacuate it now. ISIS is holding the population hostage.
Why do I have a feeling this is more akin to Gaza. The ‘moderate’ population who will run to the front-lines, bring the children and huddle around the weird-beard for HIS protection.
IMO, it’s hard to win/fight against an enemy that sees the death of their CHILDREN as a ‘good’ thing.
Nuke it from orbit...
Check. More rubble, less trouble.
Before ISIS took over Fallujah, the US was in control. IE, just a few years ago, the majority of Fallujah’s population was collaborating with the US...some as members of the Iraqi army, and I’m sure many more who did business with Americans.
Then in the blink of an eye, ISIS took over. I suspect a lot of people in Fallujah are in fact being victimized by ISIS, and not tacitly supporting them. So I think its a little different than Gaza.
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